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Today is the 24th day that the student activist hero Majid Tavakolli is on hunger strike.
He was arrested 90 days ago when the ISA activist body at Tehran Amir Kabir University was trying to have elections.

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Saeed Derakhshan, Keyvan Ansari and Abolfazl Jahandar have joined the other three student activists Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghassaban and Ehsan Mansouri who have been on hunger strike since last Saturday after two months and a half spent in Evin with no access to a lawyer or court hearing.

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Today three out of the nine Amir Kabir University activist students in jail, Majid Sheikhpur, Ali Saberi and Abbas Hakimzadeh were released after 70 (M.S.) and 43 days (A.S, A.H) from prison.
Majid was arrested during the ISA elections in which he was elected to be on central committee for the ISA with over 900 […]

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Ayatollah Boroujerdi (son of the prominent Shia cleric Seyyed Mohammad Ali Kazemeini Boroujerdi) has been sentenced to death together with 17 of his followers.
The secular ideology of this Shia cleric is that the Hidden Imam is the only one who has the legitimate competence to rule and pass judgment based on Islam, not the […]

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Today at lunchtime the students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran went on a hunger strike to protest against the arrest of the seven student activists currently held in the notorious Evin prison, and also against the increasing pressure on other active academics using harassments, banning and eviction of the active students from the university […]

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