The Education Commission of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament), while acknowledging that a number of students under the age of 18 were arrested during the crackdown on the January protests, reported that its letter to the Law Enforcement Command regarding killed and detained students has gone unanswered.
Alireza Monadi Sefidan, head of the Education Commission of the Iranian regime’s Majlis, told the state-run ILNA news agency on Friday, January 30, that in this letter, in addition to asking about detained students, questions were also raised about the number of students killed and injured, but said, “So far, we have not received any response to this letter.”
Farshad Ebrahim-Pour Nourabadi, deputy head of the Education Commission, also said: “What is certain is that among these individuals, there are a number of students under the age of 18.”
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Ebrahim-Pour also responded to the recent position of the Ministry of Education, which claimed that “most of the detainees were school dropouts and were only of school age,” saying: “According to the law, all individuals from pre-school age through twelfth grade are considered students.”
Despite the lack of any response from the Law Enforcement Command to the Education Commission’s letter, this member of Majlis claimed that “the treatment of students is carried out within the framework that individuals under 18 are subject to their own specific conditions and regulations.”
These official statements come as the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations announced on its Telegram channel, in a dossier titled “Empty Desks,” that as of January 30 it had published the names of one hundred students who were killed by Iranian regime agents during the violent January crackdown.
The human rights website HRANA announced that as of January 29 it had confirmed the killing of about 6,100 protesters, including at least 118 children under the age of 18, and is still investigating and verifying the identities of more than 17,000 additional reported deaths.
On Friday, January 30, the Teachers’ channel wrote that one of these cases concerns “a student named Aso Keykhosravi, a 17-year-old student from Javanrud, who after being arrested by security forces, there has been no news of him for three days, and as of the time of publication, his place of detention and physical and psychological condition remain unknown.”
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In another case, the channel reported the arrest of Ali Eyvazi, a 16-year-old student from Baghmalek, in the early morning of January 9, “following a raid by more than 60 masked and armed forces on his home,” adding that “this teenager is under interrogation and security agents have pressured him to make forced confessions against some of his relatives.”
On January 23, Amnesty International announced that independent sources and information gathered by the organization indicate that the number of detainees has reached “tens of thousands,” including children and teenagers, university students and school students, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, and members of ethnic and religious minorities.
In one such case, some human rights sources had earlier reported the transfer of “at least 150 women detained in connection with the nationwide protests, a significant portion of whom are female students, to the political ward of Adelabad Prison in Shiraz.”
These reports come as some citizens in parts of Iran have reported that regime agents were sent to schools to speak with students in order to impose the government’s official narrative of the protests.
In the government’s narrative, the January protesters are described as “rioters and street terrorists” who allegedly fired at people and killed about 2,500 individuals. This is while numerous and extensive images and documents have been published showing direct gunfire by regime agents, including with military weapons, and particularly from the rooftops of government and state buildings, targeting civilians.
