56 university professors in Tehran condemn students’ brutal crackdown
NCRI – Students of Tehran's Azad University (South Tehran branch) gathered outside the administration office of the university on Thursday to call for the release of their detained classmates. They chanted "Down with dictator" and "Free detained students."
Students of Tehran University's Technical Department announced their plan for staging a sit-in to protest the arrest of the students by authorities. Students said that they would not participate in exams unless their classmates are released. The announcement follows similar calls for boycotting exams that was made by students in other universities across the country in the past few days.
Students of Tehran's Khajeh Nasir Toosi University (KNTU) refrained from taking exams in protest against widespread arrest of students during the brutal crackdown on holy day of Ashura (December, 27, 2009) anti-government protests in which at least seven of the university's students were detained. KNTU students demanded their unconditional release.
Professors and students in engineering department of Azad University of Hamedan cancelled their exams on January 12. This was followed by a demonstration and the participants chanted anti-regime slogans.
In the University of Science and Technology of Tehran, 56 professors issued an open letter condemning brutal suppression of students and widespread pressure on them including heavy disciplinary sentences and summoning a large number of students to intelligence organs such as the Disciplinary Committee. Their letter was released following brutal attack by the Revolutionary Guards and Bassij paramilitary force on students in this university.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 14, 2010
