 Relatives of political prisoners and thousands of
Tehran residents gathered this afternoon outside the main entrance to
Tehran University and its surrounding area.
Demonstrators,
while chanting “free all political prisoners” and “in Iran, cry is
freedom”, called for the release of all political prisoners.
Families
of political prisoners brought photos of their relatives who are locked
away in the notorious prisons Evin and Gohardasht (in Karaj).
State Security Forces and plainclothes agents tried to bring about
an end to the protest by brutally attacking and beating the crowd. A
number of demonstrators were injured seriuosly.
A number
of protestors and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of
Iran held up photos of the leader of the Iranian Resistance Mr. Massoud
Rajavi and the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi. While brutally attacking such people, agents of the SSF
arrested several of them.
Following the attack by the
SSF, the crowd dispersed and regrouped in nearby streets and continued
their demonstration despite continued clashes. The regime’s suppressive
forces blockaded the streets to prevent people from joining the
demonstrators.
Political prisoners in Evin Prison and
Gohardasht Prison in Karaj have been on hunger strike for more than a
month in protest to prison conditions and lack of basic commodities,
and as part of a boycott of the regime’s sham presidential elections.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 12, 2005
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