Iran Human Rights Asks Universities Worldwide to Condemn the Islamic Republic’s Encroachment of University Campuses
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 30, 2022: With the continuation of nationwide protests, Islamic Republic armed plainclothes forces have entered university campuses to violently crush and arrest protesting students.
There is ample evidence showing that in addition to the police special forces, plainclothes forces, some of whom were also armed and posing as student basij members, attacked students and kidnapped a number of them from their dormitories.
Iran Human Rights strongly condemns the encroachment of university campuses by armed plainclothes forces and the violent crackdown on peaceful student protests.
IHRNGO Director and University of Oslo Professor, Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, said: “We ask universities and academic institutions around the world to support student demands and condemn the outrageous violation of university campuses by Islamic Republic forces.”
Armed state forces have systematically entered university campuses to crush peaceful student protests in recent days.
On October 29, students in more than 50 universities and higher education institutions in cities including Sanandaj, Tehran, Mashhad, Urmia, Kerman, Kashan, Zahedan, Rafsanjan, Qazvin, Bandar Abbas, Karaj, Ahvaz, Babol, Shiraz, Marivan, Isfahan, Yazd, Khorram Abad, Rasht, Qom and Shahroud staged peaceful protests.
Islamic Republic forces violently attacked protesting students peacefully chanting their demands on campuses. Plainclothes forces entered university campuses and arrested a large number of students and later even attacked university dormitories. In Sanandaj, security forces entered the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences’ 22 Golan dormitories, and fired tear gas and live ammunition to arrest students. This also happened in other cities like Tehran and Ahvaz and continues today.
Considering the Islamic Republic’s long history of suppressing and killing students, Iran Human Rights expresses serious concern about the fate of the detained students and demands their immediate release and recognition of their demands and right to protest.
The organisation calls on universities around the world to join their Iranian counterparts in condemning the suppression of students and protecting the sanctity of universities.
Following the 1999 student uprising in Iran, a legislation was passed into law on 20 August 2000 which prohibited the entry of armed forces into universitates and educational institutions.
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