NCRI – According to reports, the speech made by regime’s head of the Department of Environment ‘Masoumeh Ebtekar’ at Tehran’s university of Tarbiat-e Modarres on Monday December 5 was protested by students who were chanting “political prisoner must be released.” The students interrupted Ebtekar’s speech several times, giving her an oxygen capsule in protest against regime’s failure to control air pollution.
Also in another ceremony held on the same day at the University of Khajeh Nasir to commemorate the ‘Student Day’, the students had installed large banners on the walls of the university’s amphitheatre which read: “political prisoner must be released”, “University is not a garrison” and “Our University is alive.” The ceremony began with one of the students making a speech, in which he made mention of the political prisoner Narges Mohammadi which was immediately followed by other students chanting “political prisoner must be released.”
Regime’s handpicked agents, participating in the ceremony as guests, were so surprised by the students’ slogans that they attempted to silence the students by raising issues like “as long as there’s room for civic activities, there’s no need to shout slogans.” The ceremony was then followed by the Q & A session, during which the students responded to the regime’s agents who were promoting civic activities, saying “how could you talk about civic activities in such suffocation?” or “when the source of corruption is appointed head of the judiciary, how could anyone take his complaint to the court?”
Later in their speeches, regime’s agents claimed that basically there’s no such thing as an independent student movement and that the students have only been directed by political groups and parties since the beginning of the revolution.