Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them in front of the campus on 13 April 2009.

Students at Noushirvan University started an unlimited sit in on 11 April 2009, after they were threatened by university authorities in response to their legitimate requests. The students had requested to drop the disciplinary sentences issued recently against 11 students, to recognize the University’s Islamic Students Association and allow the members to act, and to release their colleagues at Amirkabir University who are being held in Evin Prison.

Eleven Noushirvan University students faced disciplinary charges and sentences for celebrating National Student Day on 5 December 2008, as well as for their attempts to reverse the closure of the Islamic Students Association as an independent student organization. “The University authorities had been ordered to close the Islamic Students Association by the Ministry of Higher Education,” said one of the students to the Campaign.

Eleven students, Ali Taghipour, Hesam Bagheri, Hamidreza Jahantigh, Mohsen Barzegar, Iman Sadeghi, Ahmad Mohammadnia, Siavash Saliminejad, Nima Nahva, Moein Islamijam, Mohammad Elmi, and Ali Kiani were charged and sentenced by the University’s Disciplinary Committee. The first five students were expelled for one semester.

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