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 ...
Members of Manchester Hands Off the People of Iran and supporters from the Iranian community held a demonstration in solidarity with the Iranian students’ movement on March 25. The demonstrators held pictures of the recently arrested students and carried a banner which read, ‘Free our comrades’. We called the demonstration in solidarity with members of the ...
Cat Rylance reports on the Hands Off the People of Iran meeting at Manchester University On October 22, after two weeks of building, holding a daily stall, leafleting and publicising, the Manchester branch of Hands Off the People of Iran held a meeting to discuss the situation in Iran. The meeting, held in the University of ...
The threats against Iran are growing, the biggest US fleet since 1992 are now in the Persian Gulf. Israel has set about dry run tests in the Mediterranean practising bombing raids against Iranian nuclear facilities. Inside Iran the threat of war is giving excuses for the regime to crack down on dissent. HOPI Manchester is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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, ...
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 ...
From the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students of Iran: On behalf of all students in Iran, we express our great appreciation for your efforts in publicizing the news related to the mass arrest of our friends and comrades and your protest against the Islamic republic of Iran. The movement for equality and freedom in Iran ...