While Noruz holidays are to the end, a huge effort for despising Shiraz University students has started. Shiraz students; who held 10 continues splendid protests, are now recalled to Disciplinary Committee in large scales and are also confronted with surveillance camera in place.
28 students of Shiraz University have been recalled to Disciplinary Committee because of joining 10 days protests in March 2008. Their names are as below:
Abas Rahmati, Hadi Asgari, Loghman Ghadiri, Esmail Jalilvand, Kazem Rezaee, Mohsen Goharinia, Saeed Kooshki, Abdollah Davoodian, Mohsen Zarinkamar, Ehsan Hashemi, Hadi Alamlie, Saeed Khosorabadi, Akbar Hosinpoor, Rahim Solimani, Amin Dorosti, Sajad Fatahi, Saeed Khalaatbori, Saeed Ashnaee, Saeed Lotfi, Mojtaba Shikhan, Reza Foladi, Yones Mirhosini, Mohammad Reza Dehghan, Hashem Hosinpoor, Nasrin Daulvand, Neda Zayghami, Nahid Afrasiabi and Sahar Yazdani.
During Noruz holidays, the university’s authorities took another step and installed lots of surveillance cameras in Eram Pardis yard. This happened while students have not reached their goals; which the most important one is resigning of Sadeghi, the university’s chairman. Installing surveillance cameras made students angry and aversion with Shiraz University authorities.
During 10 days protest in March, Shiraz University students wanted Mohammad Hadi Sadeghi, the university’s chairman to resign. A Science Ministry representative joined students and promised to review their demands. Students deferred following up their requests after Noruz holidays.
What we have said here is only a brief listing of academic violations and denial of right to education in Iranian universities today. Students are determined to continue their legal and rightful struggle to promote independence of universities and uphold academic freedoms, although many are sacrificed down this path.
Iran is a state party to both the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (without reservation) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), both of which prohibit the execution of persons under the age of 18 at the time of their offense. In ratifying the CRC, Iran declared an extremely broad reservation, “not to apply any provisions or articles of the Convention that are incompatible with Islamic Laws.”
one must not forget that one aspect of “security” cases is the image that they carry for the groups that advance such issues. Therefore, before fake charges take to the news-media and become public, those who have had a hand in arresting the students must be weakened. Otherwise, after the severe charges are made public, repeated and are tied to the image of the actors, even the intervention of the head of the judiciary (as history demonstrates) cannot be of much help to the detainees.
How can we tell the judiciary officials of Iran that according to law juveniles can stay alive and continue to live with appropriate and suitable punishment? How must one make this request from the judiciary a public and wide-spread demand and point out that killing a juvenile who has not wholeheartedly committed an act does not solve any of the real problems facing the country?
Thousands of university students in an Iranian city have held a protest against the attempted sexual harassment of a female colleague by a top university official, the press reported on Monday. About 3,000 students at the university in the northwestern city of Zanjan staged the sit-in protest over the weekend at a sports hall on campus, the reports said.
