The Aachen Peace Prize Committee in Germany has named the Amirkabir Newsletter as the 2025 laureate. This year’s winner is a student human rights organization in Iran that consistently reports on protests, arrests, repression, and human rights violations within Iranian universities, documenting the crackdown on students and faculty.
In the press conference announcing the 2025 winners, held today (May 22, 2025), the Aachen Peace Prize Committee praised the ‘courage of the editorial team’ and described the Amirkabir Newsletter as an essential communication tool for a resistance movement that is forced to organize and operate underground against the Islamic Republic regime. This platform now reaches hundreds of thousands via the internet and social media, becoming a powerful voice for the student movement in Iran.
The Aachen Peace Prize, one of the oldest human rights awards in Germany, has been awarded annually since 1988 to individuals and groups who work at the grassroots level for peace, democracy, and international understanding. Past recipients include notable figures such as Kailash Satyarthi, Indian child labor abolitionist and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
