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Iranian students hold secret rally

Posted on June 15th 2009 | No comments

This video from the BBC website shows a secret rally demanding that Ahmadinejad [...]

Iranian Students Attacked

Posted on April 16th 2009 | No comments
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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 [...]

HOPI meeting at King’s

Posted on October 7th 2008 | No comments

Public meeting:
Solidarity with the students! No to imperialist intervention!
October 8, 7pm, Room K4U.12, Kings College, The Strand, London
Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian are prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran and have recently fled to Britain. Behrooz has only recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands [...]

Equality and Freedom Seeking Students Press Conference

Posted on October 3rd 2008 | No comments

Film of Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian’s Press Conference in London

Mark Fischer heard two of Iran’s student activists talk of persecution and imprisonment – from WW 739
A well-attended press conference in central London on September 29 saw two student activists from the Equality and Freedom Seeking Students in Iran describe their experiences at [...]

We have not gone away

Posted on September 30th 2008 | No comments

CS spoke to a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality
Could you describe your organisation’s history and political aims?
Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality was first established about five years ago, after it was clear that the Iranian reformists around people like Khatami had been unsuccessful in their aims and that the islamic [...]

Iranian students to hold press conference

Posted on September 27th 2008 | No comments

Behrooz Karimizadeh, one of the prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran, who has recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Iranian security forces; Kaveh Abbasian, the spokesperson for the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, who was subjected to months of persecution, [...]

Nothing in common with those who excuse war

Posted on September 11th 2008 | No comments

Ben Lewis spoke to a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality

Could you tell us about your organisation’s history and political aims?
Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality was first established about five years ago, after it was clear that the Iranian reformists around people like Khatami had been unsuccessful in their aims and [...]

Free Davood Bagheri!

Posted on July 16th 2008 | No comments

Davood Bagheri is an Iranian student activist who helped organise the recent wave of student demonstrations. He fled Iran in fear for his life but was arrested by Turkish police trying to cross the border into Greece.
Davood has been held for three months in Erdine prison and tortured repeatedly. After a suicide attempt he was [...]

Two Iranian students imprisoned

Posted on June 3rd 2008 | No comments

Press release from Hands Off the People of Iran
PO Box 54631, London N16 8YE, T: 07950 416 922 (Mark Fischer)
W: http://www.hopoi.org/, E: office@hopoi.info
Immediate release

Parsa Kermanian and Alireza Heydari imprisoned for 12 months for “making propaganda against the Islamic system”
On Tuesday May 20, Parsa Kermanian (Kermanjian) and Alireza Heydari – students at the Islamic Azad [...]

Solidarity, students and the left

Posted on April 1st 2008 | No comments

Benjamin Klein interviewed Mahsa, an Iranian supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran who is currently living in Italy
There are some people on the anti-war left in Britain who are saying that the students protesting in Iran are actually in favour of military intervention.
The left student movement in Iran has always struggled against the [...]

 
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