NCRI – As the Iranian Students Day (December 7) is approaching, the clerical regime that is unable to contain the courageous movement by students across the country has intensified the wave of arrests and repressive measures against them.
In Tehran, seven members of a university students association and six students of Allameh University were arrested on November 19. Also the agents of Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security again arrested a number of student activists who had been previously arrested on December 7, 2007 and only released under pressure from international organizations after they spent months in solitary confinement and were subjected to torture. They are now sentenced to one to six years of imprisonments.
Meanwhile, the Kurdish students in Tehran, who had travelled to their hometowns in Kurdistan province, have received threats from intelligence officers prohibiting them from returning to the capital. They had travelled to their home town following a gathering at Tehran University to protest against the execution of Ehsan Fattahian, a Kurdish political prisoner. During the protest five students were arrested.
In Babolsar, in northern Iran, the mullahs’ judiciary sentenced eight students of University of Mazandaran to six months imprisonment with 15 lashes. They were arrested after participating in anti-government protest on June 15 and 16. They were charged with disturbances within the university and destroying Ahmadinejad’s portrait.
In Shiraz, southern Iran, two students of the schools of Political Science and Agricultural Science were arrested on November 17 and transferred to unknown locations. Also, for the second time, the officials of the regime postponed the trial of 20 students incarcerated in prisons of MOIS and Revolutionary Guards Corps of this city. These young people were arrested on November 4, during the violent assault of repressive forces against the university.
In Tabriz, northwest Iran, two students who were abducted by intelligence agents when Ahmadinejad was on a visit to the city, were transferred to MOIS detention center. Several students were arrested under the pretext of having participated in November 4 uprising and others received provisional eviction notices. More than 170 other students were summoned by the Disciplinary Board and sentenced to suspension of studies, deprivation from studying in university, or the prohibition of entry to the university’s premises. Another group of students also were summoned to the MOIS and threatened.
In Orumieh, northwest Iran, MOIS registered over 90 students on the blacklist of university’s Disciplinary Board.
The aforementioned repressive measures are carried out while many students are continued to be held in prisons from various universities including; Sharif University of Technology, Institute of Science and Techonolgy, K N Toosi University, Amirkabir University of Technology and Azad University campuses in Tehran; Isfahan University of Technology and Tafresh University of Technology. Also students from universities in other provinces such as Khuzestan, Gilan, Qazvin, Semnan and Zanjan are continued to be held in prison.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international bodies and organizations in defense of human rights, including the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Arrests, and student unions to condemn the arrests and the increasing pressures on Iranian students. Also it calls upon them to support the rights and just demands of Iranian students.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 25, 2009
