HRANA News Agency – Avat Rezania, a student in Tehran University’s doctorate program in Communication Studies, have been sentenced to prison and fined by Judge Farati in the Revolutionary Court, Branch 2.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), On Monday, May 9, 2011, in a news conference, Iranian Judiciary spokesman released the news of verdicts issued against those who had attacked Tehran University dormitories. Immediately following the news conference, Avat Rezania, a Kurdish student in Tehran University, was convicted of offenses against public order and sentenced to three months suspended prison term and also 74 lashes which may be substituted by $3,000 fine. The ruling is preliminary and may be appealed and overturned within 21 days.
Avat Rezania was previously a Sociology professor in Sanandaj Azad University but was banned from teaching by the Ministry of Intelligence.
HRANA – Vahid Akbari Sharghi, Student of Sound Engineering & Cinema in India was summoned by intelligence ministry agents after returning to Iran.
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.
HRANA- Shahriar Hossein-Bar, reformist student activist in Sistan Balouchestan University was attacked and severely beaten by unidentified individuals on campus.
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.
HRANA – Three members of Kiarash Kamrani’s family were arrested during a weekly visit with him in Evin Prison.
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.