Detail/Chronology of Recent Student Arrests
Information about recent student arrests
received by the Campaign, which is not exhaustive, is as follows:
16 November. Five students, Lida Mohammadi,
Sorveh Vaisi, Amaj Rahimi, Ahmad Esmaieli, and Pakhshan Azizi, were arrested
following a Kurdish students protest in front of the Law and Political
School in Tehran University. No information has been released about their
whereabouts, or about charges against them.
17 November. Neda Eskandari and Khadijeh
Ghahremani, students at Shiraz University, were arrested by intelligence
agents while facing the University's Disciplinary Committee. Both students
were expelled for two semesters.
19 November. At least 18 students were
reportedly detained in Tehran. Abbas Hakimzadeh was arrested in his home.
Seven members of the Liberal Students group, including Sorena Hashemi,
Alireza Mousavi, Farzan Raoufi, Sina Shokuhi, Alborz Zahedi, and Ehsan
Dolatshah were arrested, and intelligence forces attacked Ehsan Dolatshah's
house. Six students of Alameh Tabatabai in Tehran, including Hamid
Ghahvechian, Alireza Mousavi, Ahmad Mirhaheri, Alireza Zargar, Amir
Kazempour, Tina Shokuhi, and Yaser Masoumi, were arrested in a coffee shop
in Tehran. No information was given to their families, but the summons for
searching their houses was signed by Branch 3 of the Special Security
Section for Interrogations.
20 November. Twenty-four students in Ferdowsi
University in Mash'had were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee
apparently for participating in peaceful protests on 4 November.
22 November. Eight students in Mazandaran
university were each sentenced to 6-month prison terms and 15 lashes by the
public court in Babolsar, Branch 101, because of their participation in
peaceful protests in June and July 2009. The eight students are Milad
Hosseini Koshtan, Ali Nazari, Siavash Safavi, Ali Donyari, Maziar Yazdani
Nia, Shoaneh Merikhi, Ali Abbasi, and Rahman Yaghoubi. Also on 22 November,
20 students in Gilan University were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee
in connection with a protest against Safar Harandi, a former Minister of
Culture, on 9 November, and 50 students at Azad university in Najafabad, in
Isfahan province, were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee for
participating in gatherings on 4 November.
23 November. Mehdi Arabshahi, responsible for
the organizational chart of the student group Office of Strengthening Unity
(Daftar e Tehkim Vahdat), was summoned by the Tehran Public Court, Branch
1053, on a charge of disturbing public order through an illegal gathering.
Also on 23 November, student activists in Ilam were arrested, including
Arash Khandel, Morad Basereh.
The Campaign has also received information that
18 students at Shiraz University are in detention. Banaie, Jalalli, Saied
Rezaie, Zahedi, Zohourian, Aref, Pourfathi, Taheri, Safarpour and Poursultan
are being held in Adelabad prison. Dr. Masiholah Haghighatjou, who has two
Ph.D.s in medical science, was arrested on 4 November. Also, Ali Saleh
Pour, Kazem Rezaie, Yahya Tavousi, Neda Eskandari, Khadijeh Ghahremani,
Nazari, Shirvani, and Bagheri are being held in the Intelligence detention
center in Shiraz. Some of the students were tried but their families were
informed that the verdicts would be issued after 7 December, and until that
time, they would be banned from visiting.
Ten students of Shahr Kurd University in
Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari were reportedly summoned to the local Intelligence
office and 23 students were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee in charge
of attending peaceful protests on 4 November.
Detail/Chronology of Recent Student Arrests
According to
Amirkabir News, in the past month, over 60 students were arrested, some
of whom remain in jail. In the last week, information about recent student
arrests received by the Campaign, which is not exhaustive, is as
follows:
16 November:
Five students, Lida Mohammadi, Sorveh Vaisi, Amaj Rahimi, Ahmad Esmaieli, and
Pakhshan Azizi, were arrested following a Kurdish students protest in front of
the Law and Political School in Tehran University. No information has been
released about their whereabouts, or about charges against them.
17 November:
Neda Eskandari and Khadijeh Ghahremani, students at Shiraz University, were
arrested by intelligence agents while facing the University's Disciplinary
Committee. Both students were expelled for two semesters.
19 November: At
least 18 students were reportedly detained in Tehran. Abbas Hakimzadeh was
arrested in his home. Seven members of the Liberal Students group, including
Sorena Hashemi, Alireza Mousavi, Farzan Raoufi, Sina Shokuhi, Alborz Zahedi, and
Ehsan Dolatshah were arrested, and intelligence forces attacked Ehsan
Dolatshah's house. Six students of Alameh Tabatabai in Tehran, including Hamid
Ghahvechian, Alireza Mousavi, Ahmad Mirhaheri, Alireza Zargar, Amir Kazempour,
Tina Shokuhi, and Yaser Masoumi, were arrested in a coffee shop in Tehran. No
information was given to their families, but the summons for searching their
houses was signed by Branch 3 of the Special Security Section for
Interrogations.
On the same
day, two students, Rasoul Alinejad and Behrouz Faridi of Azad University in
Tabriz, were arrested by Intelligence forces.
20 November:
Twenty-four students in Ferdowsi University in Mash'had were summoned to the
Disciplinary Committee apparently for participating in peaceful protests on 4
November.
22 November:
Eight students in Mazandaran university were each sentenced to 6-month prison
terms and 15 lashes by the public court in Babolsar, Branch 101, because of
their participation in peaceful protests in June and July 2009. The eight
students are Milad Hosseini Koshtan, Ali Nazari, Siavash Safavi, Ali Donyari,
Maziar Yazdani Nia, Shoaneh Merikhi, Ali Abbasi, and Rahman Yaghoubi. Also on 22
November, 20 students in Gilan University were summoned to the Disciplinary
Committee in connection with a protest against Safar Harandi, a former Minister
of Culture, on 9 November, and 50 students at Azad university in Najafabad, in
Isfahan province, were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee for participating
in gatherings on 4 November.
23 November:
Mehdi Arabshahi, responsible for the organizational chart of the student group
Office of Strengthening Unity (Daftar e Tehkim Vahdat), was summoned by the
Tehran Public Court, Branch 1053, on a charge of disturbing public order through
an illegal gathering. Also on 23 November, student activists in Ilam were
arrested, including Arash Khandel, Morad Basereh.
Three students
of Qazvin University, Payam Heydar Ghazvini, Farhad Fathi, and Saieed Sakakian,
were arrested.
The
Campaign has also received information that 18 students at Shiraz
University are in detention. Banaie, Jalalli, Saied Rezaie, Zahedi, Zohourian,
Aref, Pourfathi, Taheri, Safarpour and Poursultan are being held in Adelabad
prison. Dr. Masiholah Haghighatjou, who has two Ph.D.s in medical science, was
arrested on 4 November. Also, Ali Saleh Pour, Kazem Rezaie, Yahya Tavousi, Neda
Eskandari, Khadijeh Ghahremani, Nazari, Shirvani, and Bagheri are being held in
the Intelligence detention center in Shiraz. Some of the students were tried but
their families were informed that the verdicts would be issued after 7 December,
and until that time, they would be banned from visiting.
Ten students of
Shahr Kurd University in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari were reportedly summoned to the
local Intelligence office and 23 students were summoned to the Disciplinary
Committee in charge of attending peaceful protests on 4 November.
