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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This morning when Arman Sadeghi and Ismail Salmanpour, both members of the Islamic Student Association activist body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, tried to enter the university they were attacked by the university’s security guards who were ordered to do so by the university’s president, Dr. Ali-Reza Rahayi, who […]
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In the last week over 40 students of the Amir Kabir University in Tehran have been called to meet the University Disciplinary Committee, six of these students have since been banned from attending the classes and the dormitories.
One of these students was Bijan Pouryousefi, a committee member of the student activist body ISA, has been […]
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These are six of the seven student activists from Amir Kabir University currently in solitary confinement at the 209 branch of Evin prison. Their crime is simply protesting against the dictatorial police state of the country, or as the fundamentalist regime puts it, “threat to national security”, more like a threat to their very […]
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The ISA student activist body elections came to an end yesterday with more interruptions from the university security officers who banned even the ISA’s Secretary Tabatabi from entering the university and stopped a planned press conference from taking place on the campus regarding the elections.
Yesterday also the university security officers lead by a man […]
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The first day of the elections for the student activist body ISA finally took place today, and as speculated, there were many clashes between the voting students and Basiji revolutionary guard “students” who tried to interrupt the elections.
The AKU Students Union who had asked for a chance to organise an event on the recent […]
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The run up to the elections of the student activist Islamic Student Association (ISA) some of it which I had covered earlier has developed in to crisis.
Student activist Babak Zamanian (pictures to the right), who is a committee member of ISA, was arrested on Saturday 21st of April while he was on his way to […]
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Babak Zamanian, a student at Amir Kabir University, one of the most politically active institutions in Tehran, is on crutches in this earlier photo (New York Times) because of a beating by supporters of President Ahmadinejad.
Last week he was arrested by the regime because of the interviews he gave to radio stations that broadcast outside […]
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