NCRI – The student protests in Shariati, Vali-e-Asr and Shamsipour technical colleges in Tehran which began on Monday, May 5, led to violent clashes with State Security Forces (SSF). The suppressive forces encircled and brutally attacked students using clubs and batons in a bid to disperse them.
Shariati students boycotted lectures and marched towards the State General Inspection Organization and joined other protesting students from Vali-e-Asr and Shamsipour colleges on Wednesday. They demanded change in anti-student policies of the Ministry of Science.
Meanwhile, SSF agents and special units of the Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked Shamsipour college students to prevent them joining the big protest. The repressive forces brutally attacked the students using tear gas and batons. The students chanted slogans such as, “Students will die but never be humiliated” and “Open the gates, free the students.”
While lauding student protests and their determination, the Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations, in particular student unions and associations, to condemn the suppressive measure against the Iranian students.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 8, 2008
