Saturday, 27 December 2008
NCRI – With 19 new students summoned to Shiraz University’s “disciplinary committee” the total number of students called by the committee has reached 30, reported the state run daily Etemaad on Thursday.
The students were summoned because they had participated in December 9 and 10 ’Student Day’ ceremonies in Shiraz University in southern Iran, Etemaad said.
Students summoned to the “disciplinary committee” in the past always received suspensions notices, the paper added.
Among those called in by the committee this time, there were those who had been suspended for a number of semesters in the past and now are facing total expulsion from the school, Etemaad emphasized.
Since the early days of mullahs’ rule, the Iranian universities have been the scene of much anti-government protests. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ascendency to power in 2005 was an inclination point in student protest when Tehran’s Polytechnic (Amirkabir) University students burned his pictures before his eyes on December 20 of that year.
On December 14, following the two days of much heated student protests marking the Student Day in Shiraz University, Etemaad reported that Paramilitary Bassij Students have threaten to “take the matters in their own hands if the government goes soft on students.”
Mullahs’ security forces also had threatened the student activists with their lives right after the protests ended on December 10.
