NCRI – In a statement by students at the University of Kurdistan while requesting the freedom of 16 political prisoners sentenced to death, asked people to protest against repressive policies of the Iranian regime.

Los Angles Times - Do not forget Iran. Remember Neda. If there are green-clad protests in Tehran this weekend — to mark the first anniversary of the election that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole — they will doubtless again be crushed with casual brutality by the thugs of the Basij militia, the secret police and the Revolutionary Guard.

Family Security Matters
By  Shahriar Kia

Widespread student arrests  as anniversary of uprising approaches
 
Fearing the students’ role in the June uprising, the mullahs’ regime has resorted to widespread and arbitrary arrests of students and increasing pressure on them.
 
Benjamin Al-e Tayeb, a 20-year-old Electrical Engineering Student from Dezful University was arrested for unknown reasons and was transferred to the torture chambers of the regime’s intelligence headquarters in the city of Ahwaz, southwestern Iran.

NCRI - On Friday night, June 4, the anniversary of the death of the clerical regime’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian people rushed to their rooftops to chant “death to [mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei,” and “death to dictator” in order to show their hatred towards the clerical regime. The nightly protests peaked at 22:00 local time in various parts of Tehran, including Monirieh and Abu-Saeed.

NCRI – Discussions around setting up gender-based universities, gender segregation in existing campuses and establishing a dress code for female students  continue within the regime.

A member of the regime’s Majlis (Parliament) committee on national security recently spoke of "those working to create and promote moral corruption among university students", while the Ministry of Science has been showing increasing proclivity to grant permits for single gender universities. 

An executive with the telecom equipment joint venture told an EU human rights hearing that the company regretted supplying technology used to suppress dissent

Bloomberg - June 03 - Nokia-Siemens Networks on Wednesday (2 June) admitted its share of the blame for Iran's brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrators last year after selling mobile phone surveillance to the authoritarian regime.

NCRI – Families of political prisoners detained during Iran’s year-long uprising gathered this week in front of the Iranian regime’s prosecutor’s office in Tehran and protested against the clerical regime’s pressures on political prisoners to write pardon letters. The relatives demanded the unconditional release of the prisoners.

NCRI - Hamid Haeri was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Court.  He was charged with “Moharebeh,” (waging war against God), for visiting his son in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

Mr. Hamid Haeri, while suffering from acute ailments, unable to walk on his own, was transferred from solitary confinement to the 28th  Branch of the Revolutionary Court without his lawyer and family being notified. He was recently transferred to solitary confinement in Ward 240 of Tehran’s Evin prison.

NCRI – A political prisoner currently on death row has announced that he will continue a hunger strike he has launched since May 12 until his death.

A judge had told Habibollah Golparipour that if he refuses to end his hunger strike, an execution sentence will immediately be handed down against him. In response, Golparipour had said, “I know I will be hanged soon. So, I want to willingly end my own life. I will do this in a way that after my death you will be left with nothing but shame.”