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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Oct. 17 –
Some 500 students in Tehran’s Amir-Kabir
University held a protest
on Monday against the takeover of universities by Islamist groups
affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards. These include the paramilitary Bassij Daneshjui and Jihad Daneshgahi. They also demanded the release of a fellow
student activist.
“Political prisoners must be freed”, students chanted during the hour-long
protest on campus.
“The Bassij association [inside universities]
must be shut down”, they chanted, as they criticised the atmosphere of
repression on campus.
The student protesters called for the release of Keyvan
Ansari, a former student leader at Amir-Kabir who is currently languishing in an Iranian
jail. Ansari was arrested more than three
weeks ago.
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