Posted in Amir Kabir University, Hunger strike, ISA, Student activists on Aug 5th, 2007 3 Comments »
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.
Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Confederation of Iranian Students, Student activism, Video on Aug 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGAa8AfboM
The good news is that the international Confederation of Iranian Students is working really hard, here is a music video from their UK federation.
The bad news is that the fundamentalist regime is hanging everyone..
Posted in Human Rights in Iran, Hunger strike, Student activism on Jul 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
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.
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Human Rights in Iran, Hunger strike, ISA, News, Political prisoners, Student activism, Student activists on Jul 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in 18 Tir, Activism and opposition movements, Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Political prisoners, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism, Tahkim Vahdat on Jul 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
The July 9, 1999 Tehran student rebellion was the single most important movement against the Islamic Republic government. The student movement had steadily got more and more furious against the useless Islamic government who had failed to bring about any changes, even under the name of Khatami’s ‘reformist government’.The students were ready to rebel against […]
Posted in Censorship in Iran, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Media, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The head of the ILNA (”Iranian Labour News Agency”) Masoud Heidari resigned yesterday after pressure from the Islamic Republic.
Since Ahmadinejad came in to power, there has been a lot of pressure on this news agency because of their coverage of the politically active students who are now widely referred to as “Starred Students” (if they […]
Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Allameh University, Basijis, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activists on Jun 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
The ISA student activist body at Tehran Allameh Tabatabaei University reports that the university has now gone as far as creating their own fake ISA body and has started to use the ISA logo with it!
University has reportedly put up huge banners around the university, honouring the “martyrs” of the Islamic Republic, using the […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Harasat forces, ISA, News, Political prisoners, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday the four members who are left from the Central Committee for the AmirKabir Polytechnic University ISA activist body were doing a sit in protest for their imprisoned classmates at the university when Rouzbahani, the head of the cultural affairs, came up to them and threatened them by saying that “Your efforts are against the […]
Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Anti-War campaigners, CASMII, Fakhravar, Report, Student activism on Jun 24th, 2007 8 Comments »
So I finally found the time to sit and write about meeting Fakhravar when he was here for a week or two in London, where he spent his time wisely meeting with number of ex-pats, students, policy makers, human rights organisations, etc.
Siavash has always been a controversial figure. Since his escape from Iran and arrival […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Appeal, Human Rights in Iran, ISA, Student activism on Jun 15th, 2007 20 Comments »
This is an appeal by bloggers against the detention of 9 Iranian students from the Amir Kabir Polytechnic University in Tehran who are been kept and repeatedly tortured at the notorious Evin prison:
Dr. Keyvan Ansari - Alumni Association of Iran, since September 18 (2006)
Ahmad Ghassaban - Editor of Sahar, since May 3
Maghdad Khalilpur […]
