NCRI – Since noon today (local time), about 1,000 students of Social Science College of Allameh University in Tehran have been staging an anti-government demonstration on campus. The protestors are chanting "Down with dictator," This is the final warning," "University students are ready for uprising."
The demonstrators are protesting against widespread arrest and suppression of university students, and the expulsion as well as suspension of dozens of dissenting students in recent weeks.
The security forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence turned out in force on campus. They beat up and arrested students in order to break up the protest. The students however, defied the repressive forces, compelling them to retreat. The students succeeded in holding their rally despite continuing skirmishes.
Additional detail will be provided as they become available.
Secretariat of National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 30, 2007
