Iran: Students hold rally in Tehran University

Iran Focus: London, May 23 – Hundreds of university students rallied on campus at the University of Tehran on Monday in protest to the increasing police brutality against student’s liberties. Iran Focus

London, May 23 – Hundreds of university students rallied on campus at the University of Tehran on Monday in protest to the increasing police brutality against student’s liberties.

The rally took place at the university’s Technical Faculty, according to a statement received from a student group that took part in the protests. Security forces were rushed to the scene to quell the unrest.

The demonstrators highlighted the recent case of a Kurdish student from the university’s social sciences faculty whose fingers had been broken with a metal baton by members of the herasat, or security agents, for distributing student papers on campus.

They also protested against the systematic crackdown on mixed-sex gatherings outside the university’s main entrance as well as university officials’ “incompetence”.

“Death to dictatorship”, the students chanted. There were also chants of “forget about becoming nuclear, think about us” and “we don’t want a fascist university”.

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