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To the People of the World

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 will never forget your support and solidarity.
Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran are in a battle with the Islamic Regime. Our demands which are nothing but the demands of the people of Iran have been labeled ‘actions against country’s security’. Many of our friends have been arrested and put under torture. In order to defeat us, each day they make the list of their accusations and allegations against us longer and heavier.
We, the freedom and equality seeking students in the past two weeks have demonstrated that we not only peruse our goals but also will organise a national protest for the immediate release of our friends and comrades. We are just in the beginning of our battle and will not stop until all our friends will be released. To achieve this goal, we need all your support and solidarity as women, workers, students and all other people across the world. We call you to enhance your efforts in supporting our struggle.
We are in the beginning of our battle. Freedom is our right! Equality if our right! Opposition to war is our rights. A humane life is our right! Education at universities and not at militarized colleges and universities is our right! Unconditional and immediate release of all arrested and imprisoned students is our right!
In our struggle we need your support more and more. The banner of freedom and equality seeking students is humanity’s banner in Iran. Support us to hold this banner up. Support us in releasing our comrades.
Until the release of our comrades from prisons, students’ protests will continue across the country.
Freedom and Equality Seeking Students
16
December 2007
Proclamation of the arrests on the University Students’ Day
On the threshold of the 16th of Azar (December 7) the University Students’ Day in Iran, more than 30 “Equality and Freedom-seeking Students” have been arrested. Surprisingly, 16th of Azar – the symbol of the struggle against dictatorship of the ex-imperial regime – is not tolerated by the Islamic Government either.What has happened during this ceremony – the main pivot of which was the opposition with war and sanction – is the repetition of the same scenes of the previous government.The commemoration of the University Students’ Day is the tradition of more than 50 years and the ones who have been arrested this year are the most honest children of our country. We want the unconditional and immediate release of our captivated students.

Seeking Committee for the Freedom of the University Students


05 December 2007
The Complete Report of the Arrests in the Latter Days and the Students Day Demonstration
Yesterday the demonstration of the "Students Day" was disposed in the University of Tehran, by the Radical Leftist students of iran. Some days before the demonstration, many left activists were threatend by the government, and were urged in order not to dispose this demonstration. Since the Iranian students have been disposing this program for about 54 years (honoring 3 marthyr comrades who were killed by the former regime in the engineering faculty of the University of Tehra because of protesting against Nixon's trip to Iran) and most importantly because in the past year all the social movements in Iran such as the workers, women and students movement have been pressured back by the regime, the students decided to hold the demonstration by any mean possible.On Saturday December 2nd, 2007 mean while the students were preparing for the demonstration, the government was prepering to suppress them.The arrests started on Saturday at 9 AM when "Mehdi Gerailoo" (Student of Geophysics) and "Nader Ahsani" were kidnapped from his own home by the security forces and was taken to an unknown place. In the afternoon two of the Sociology Faculty of the University of Tehran, "Victoria Jamshidi" and "Anoosheh Azadbar" were arrested at home without any explanation. The arrestments continued until yesterday 2 PM when almost 26 students from diffrent universitys had been arrested and many are still sued. The complete list of the arrestments is attached to this letter.But the demonstration was held by the Radical Leftist students exactly on time, at 12 PM Tuesday, in the University of Tehran in front of the Engineering Faculty. The demonstration started with singing revolutionary songs by the students; many students carring posters and slogans defining their wants and aims on them such as "The University Is Not Garrison" , "Liberty of Women Is Liberty of the Society" , "NO WAR" , "Hands Off the People of Iran", "Free the Political Prisoners" , "There IS an Alternative" , "Free Our Classmates" , "The Students Movement Allied with the Workers and Women movements", "We Want Independent Unions" and "FREEDOM EQUALITY" .Then some of the radical left students made speeches: Behzad Bagheri (student of Archology) made speech about the pressures in the past year and about the arrested students.Bita Samimizad (student of phisycs) made speech against the war which might happen in Iran and about the women and workers movement in the past year.Bijan Sabbagh (student of Chemical Engineering - University of Mazandaran) made speech about the arrested students in the University of Mazandaran, Tehran, Ahvaz and ....Kaveh Abbasian (student of cinema), the representative of the students who were not allowd to countinue their studies by the government, talked about these students and the problems they faced, and about how he was almost arrested when he tried to come to Tehran for the demonstration; he reminded the government that a movement which is supported by the society can not be ruined by the system.Then Roozbeh Safshekan read the declaration of the Radical Leftist students. He then arrested IN THE UNIVERSITY by security forces exactly after the demonstration.Peyman Piran (the ex-political prisoner), Ali Ajami (student of law) and Kamran Akhshi (student of political siences) and some other studets talked about different political and social matters.The demonstration countinued in front of the main gate of the university, the students sang revolutionary songs and yelled out their wants so everyone in the street could hear: "Free the Imprisoned Students", "I'll Kill Them Who Killed my Brother", "Taking Part in Elections Is a Betray", "Down with the Dictator", "We don't Want Savage Government and Police", "Ahmadinejad! Pinouche! Iran's not gonna Be Chili" .... The crowd came back to the faculty of Law and Political Sciences and ended the demonstration. Half an hour later, the security forces started to arrest the students who were active during the demonstration; specially the speech-makers. They firstly caught "Roozbeh Safshekan" who read the declaration of the Radical Leftist students and his wife, "Mina" (His wife was released some hours later). The security forces followed students and tried to arrest "Kaveh Abbasian" and "Bijan Sabbagh" in front of the Engineering Faculty. But they were not successfull because the other students surrounded them, so Kaveh and Bijan could run away. Till 7 PM all the activists changed their appearances and the clothing and went out of the university. All of the activists are hidden now. The government is still trying to arrest them
No matter how many they arrest or what ever the do to us, our movement will go ahead.
NOTHING CAN STOP US
Long live FREEDOM and EQUALITY
List of the Arrested Students
1-Mehdi Gerailoo - University of Tehran2- Nader Ahsani - Ex-student of the University of Mazandaran3- Anoosheh Azadbar - University of Tehran4- Ilnaz Jamshidi - Azad University of Tehran(south branch)5- Behrooz Karimizadeh - Expelled student of the University of Tehran6- Saeed Habibi - Ex-student of the Sharif University of Technology7- Ali Salem - Amirkabir University of Technology8- Yoones Mirhosseini - Bahonar University, Shiraz9- Milad Omrani - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University10- Abed Tavancheh - Expelled student of Amirkabir University of Technology11- Yaser Pirhayati - Shahed University12- Roozbeh Safshekan - University of Tehran13- Saeed Aghamali - Art University of Yazd14- Roozbehan Amiri - University of Tehran15- Nasim Soltanbeigi - Allame Tabataba'ee University16- Mahsa Mohebbi17- Keyvan Amiri - Sharif University of Technology18- Hadi Salari - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University19- Amir Aghayi - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University20- Farshid Farhadi Ahangaran - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University21- Mohsen Ghamin - Amirkabir University of Technology22- Okhtay Hosseini - Azad University23- Soroosh Hashempoor - Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz24- Mohsen Ghamin - Amirkabir University of Technology25- Hamed Mohammadi - University of Mazandaran (arrested two weeks ago)26- Arash Pakzad - University of Mazandaran27- Milad Moeeni - University of Mazandaran28- Hassan Maarefi - University of Mazandaran29- Behrang Zandi - University of Mazandaran30- Peyman Piran31- Majid Ashrafnejad - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University32- Ali Kalayi - Azad University33 - Amir Mehrzad

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بهروز کریمی زاده

مهدی گرایلو
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پیمان پیران
سعید حبیبی
مجید اشرف نژاد
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علی سالم
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Iranian Students Protest Jailings
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: December 10, 2007
TEHRAN, Dec. 9 — Iranian students held a protest on Sunday at Tehran University to demand the release of fellow students who have been jailed in recent months.
The students chanted slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and damaged the main gates of the university, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
A witness, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said that the figure of 1,500 demonstrators, which was reported by student Web sites, appeared to be accurate.
Advar News, a Web site run by former students, reported Sunday that one advocate, Ali Nikoonesbati, who was arrested last month, had been released.
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