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Iran campus hunger strike spreading

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 06 – Students in Payam-Nour University of Ardebil (northwest Iran) began a hunger strike, protesting the arrests of fellow student...

Iran university students on hunger strike as protests rise

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 06 – Students in the University of Yazd (central Iran) have started a hunger strike today in protest against a...

Iran: 500 former Iraq-based MeK members reject abuse claims

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 05 – Over 500 former members and supporters of an Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI...

Prominent US lawyer censures Human Rights Watch for Iran dissidents report

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 04 – A United States lawyer representing members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Iraq-based People’s Mojahedin, censured...

Iran political prisoners plan hunger strike against undemocratic elections

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 04 – Political prisoners in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison announced yesterday in a joint statement that they were going to...

Iran university students call for boycott of elections

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 – Skirmishes broke out at Khoy University (north-western Iran) yesterday between students and security forces, when the latter attempted...

Iran: Tehran students protest against paramilitary forces

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 – “Artillery, Tanks, Machine guns are no longer effective”, students in Tehran’s Amir Kabir University chanted, during a gathering...

Students disrupt speech of Iran presidential candidate

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 – Students in the University of Ilam (western Iran) disrupted a speech by presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Wednesday...

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