Tag Archive | "Iranian Student Activism"

Pressure Mounts to Dissolve Student Association (Office to Strengthen Unity) Daftar Tahkim Vahdat


(Rooz Online) | February 18, 2010
Arash Bahmani
Note from INN (not in the original article in Rooz Online): The Student Association, the Office to Strengthen Unity is one of Iran’s largest and strongest student organizations, and has played a significant role in organizing student protests since the rigged presidential elections in June of 2009.
Pressures continue on [...]

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Majid Tavakoli Returns to the Revolutionary Court


(RAHANA) | February 22, 2010
RAHANA – Majid Tavakolo was taken back to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran in prison uniform and with laceration marks above his right eyebrow. Tavakoli was not given any reason for his appearance before the court. He was detained in solitary confinement for 3 weeks before today’s court appearance.
According to Bamdad [...]

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Breaking News: Video – Students Protest in front of Tehran University: “Dean of the University, Resign! Resign!”


The following video was posted by Mehdi Saharkhiz on his Youtube channel today, showing students protesting in front of the gates of Tehran University, chanting:
“Students will die but will not surrender to oppression”
and:
“Dean of the University, Resign! Resign!”
Watch the video:

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Video: Pro-regime university speaker shouted down by students


(France24/RFI
Pro-regime speakers are regularly invited by University Bassij to speak before students – but since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial re-election in June, they face increasingly hostile audiences. On November 16, one of Ahmadinejad’s staunchest supporters was booed to silence with calls of “murderer” and “liar, go away!” But students often pay the price for their [...]

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