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Protests reported across Iran

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Protests reported across Iran

INTV, 1 Oct 2013 – A crowd of farmers in Esfahan’s Khorasgan area staged a protest on Tuesday, October 1st outside the State Security Force headquarters. The Iranian regime has refrained from giving compensation to the farmers for their losses due to the cut off of water from the Zayandeh Roud river.
Hundreds of students from the Urumiya Industrial University staged a rally in protest to the suppression and tight security measures at the university. The students while chanting “Mirzai, quit! Quit!” called for the resignation of university dean. 
Families of the inmates on death row in the Ghezelhesar and Gohardasht prisons in Karaj continued their sit-in on Monday outside the regime’s judiciary in Tehran. Agents of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security threatened the protesters and forced them to leave the area. The families announced that they will continue the sit-in until the death sentences of their loved ones are abolished.
A group of Tehran’s bakers staged a protest gathering on Monday outside the Flour and Bread Council of Tehran’s southwestern area on Rajai Road. They were protesting to the regime for not giving them flour subsidies.
A group of parents of elementary students in Tehran’s Area 16 schools staged a protest on Tuesday, October 1st outside the regime’s Education Department in the area. They protested to the extortion of millions of rials by the Iranian regime under the pretext of social aids.
Political prisoner Mohsen Negahban, in protest to the brutal and medieval treatment of the regime’s henchmen in Zahedan Prison, sewed his lips and eyes and went on a dry hunger strike. This prisoner had been exiled from Lorestan (western Iran) to the Zahedan (eastern Iran) Prison some 3 years ago.
Khaled Hardani, political prisoner in Karaj’s Gohardasht Prison, was transferred to solitary confinement. He has told his cellmates that if they take and not return me, I will go on hunger strike.