With over 70 sit-ins and gatherings, students made the universities the main center for protests. At Tehran’s Polytechnic students shouted “Down with dictator” when Ahmadinejad, mullahs’ president, went for a visit. Students held his pictures upside down and set fire to them.
Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, saluted the bravery of the students stating, “the Iranian people and its freedom-loving children, responded to the savagery of this medieval
dictatorship by cries of freedom and call for downfall of the dictatorship.”
Political prisoners in Gohardasht (near Tehran), Birjand (east), Semnan (north), Isfahan (center) and Ardebil (north-east) continued with their hunger strikes. They have been protesting against inhuman treatments and torture in prisons.
Workers also led over 40 protests. The employees of Iran Sadra shipyard extended their sit-in for ten days.
Over the same period some thirty people were hanged in public or in prisons. Ten death sentences were also announced, notably by stoning, and thousands of people were arrested under various pretexts.