Iran: Protests in Polytechnic (Amir Kabir) University on 40th Day Memorial of Victims of Downed Ukrainian Airliner

On Sunday, February 16, 2020, students at Tehran’s Polytechnic (Amir Kabir) University held a protest on the 40^th day memorial of the victims of the Ukrainian airliner shot down by IRGC missiles on January 8, 2020.

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Students were chanting:

• Neither the ballot box, nor vote, election boycott
• People grapple with poverty, the mullahs think of votes
• IRGC, IRGC, you are our killers
• Be afraid, be afraid, we are all together
• Don’t call me seditionist, you the oppressor are the seditionist
• From Iran to Baghdad, poverty, oppression and despotism
• 1,500 murdered in November
• Mothers are grieving, here is like marshes
• November, January and June bring to mind bloodshed and injustice
• Neither garrison, nor agencies, hail to universities

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#IranProtests Brave Univ.students protest regime’s repressive rule, reminding 1500 martyrs in November #protests. They chant:”From #Iran to #Baghdad, poverty, repression,& tyranny”,”while ppl are in poverty,they(rulers) are thinking about (their) vote”.#BoycottIranShamElections pic.twitter.com/c0DMlAnEmy

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) February 16, 2020 

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#IranProtests:Brave students at Amir-Kabir University,protested against the dictatorship in #Iran &called for the release of political prisoners. Reported by MEK sources.
The #protesters chanted:”IRGC is our killer”&”No ballot boxes, no votes, Boycott the election”#FreeIran2020 pic.twitter.com/a3otsGVDdT

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) February 16, 2020 

Plainclothes agents and suppressive forces stationed at the university attacked the students, who resisted their onslaught and forced them to retreat.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

February 16, 2020