Milad Asadi, Student Activist, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

HRANA News Agency – Milad Asadi, student activist and a member of the Office for Strengthening Unity, has been locked up in solitary confinement after returning to prison from Nowruz furlough.

 

 According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Milad Asadi was summoned to prison after completing his furlough and has been transferred to a solitary confinement in cell block 209.The reason for this transfer is unknown.

 

 

Milad Asadi was arrested in November 2009 and subsequently tried and convicted on May 9, 2010. In Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, Branch 28, Judge Moqayaseh sentenced him to seven and a half years in prison.The Appeals Court has upheld this ruling.

 

It is also worth mentioning that this political prisoner has been denied his right to request furlough for months.

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Arrest of 15 University Activists Arrested in Marivan

HRANA – At least 15 students arrested after a protest at Payam-e-Nur University in Marivan on Thursday, May 13, 2010.

In this protest, students were asking the people of Marivan to participate in a city wide strike to show their dismay of the executions that had occurred earlier this year. Those arrested at this event have been sent to undisclosed locations.

According to the information received by HRANA, here are the list of 5 of those who were arrested:

1. Mr. Aram Vabasy 2. Mr. Foad Moradi 3. Mr. Togigh Partoe 4. Donna Lanjavae 5. Saman Zandi

Central Intelligence Agency of Marivan during the past few days has contacted many of the activist of that city and has threatened them that should they follow through with promoting strike, they will face severe consequences.

Currently the atmosphere of Marivan is that of domination by anti riot and security forces.

Attempt on the Life of Student Activist Shahriar Hossein-Bar in Sistan Balouchestan University

HRANA- Shahriar Hossein-Bar, reformist student activist in Sistan Balouchestan University was attacked and severely beaten by unidentified individuals on campus.

According to Daneshjoo News, Hossein-Bar was twice disciplined and suspended for his activities that included protesting the lack safety and security on campus in 2008, and in 2009 for protesting the election results. He was barred from campus last semester.

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Hundreds of Tehran University Students Protest on the Anniversary of the Dormitory Tragedy

HRANA – Despite exams and increased security measures intended to intimidate students, the “green students” of Tehran University were successful in organizing a protest that drew hundreds of students on Monday June 14, 2010.
According to the students, about 100 students began protesting in front of the main door for the university’s technical school and their numbers grew quickly. Filming by plain clothed agents prevented the on looking crowd (which had grown larger than the main crowd of protestors) from joining the protest. Instead that crowd began to march on university grounds.

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Two Students from Tabriz University Arrested

HRANA- In conjunction with increased security measures, including widespread arrests of political activists in Azabarbijan and increased pressure on student activists, Sadra Aghassi and Naem Ahmadi from Tabriz University, members of the university’s Islamic Student Association, were arrested on June 14, 2010.

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Masoud Kadkhodaee, Amir Kabir University Student, Arrested

HRANA – Masoud Kadkhodaee, a senior civil engineering student at Amir Kabir University, was arrested last week after a raid by security forces on his residence.

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71 Azad University Students Summoned by the Disciplinary Committee

HRANA – 71 students at Azad University’s Shahre Ray campus were summoned by the university’s Disciplinary Committee on Friday.

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20 Plain-Clothes Agents Raided the Office of Azad University’s Board of Trustees at Night

HRANA – In the early hours of Thursday, May 27th, more than twenty armed plain-clothes agents raided the office of the Board of Trustees, the office of the Founder, and the Office for the Center of Advanced Arts and Sciences at Azad University and illegally entered the premises.

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