NCRI - Students at Sahand University in Tabriz, provincial capital of Eastern Azerbaijan, northwest Iran, ended their second day of sit-in yesterday.

In a bid to end the students' protest, the regime has resorted to its usual methods of threats and intimidations. The university officials have been making threatening calls to the families of female students who play an active role in the sit-in to put pressure on their children for ending their protest. Students have been staying in the main university buildings over night.

Students have been calling for the resignation of the university authorities in particular the Cultural and Students' Affair administrator, Zahed; and the head of the university security, Hosseini.

Also in Arak Open University, central Iran, students staged a protest against summoning of their fellow students to disciplinary committees and the outrageous behavior of the university's head of security, Revolutionary Guard Abdul-Hossein Daraii, when he clashed with female students. Students vowed to continue with their protest if Daraii, with a record of bribery and corruption, did not resign from his post.

The Iranian Resistance calls on human rights organizations, in particular student unions, to condemn the clerical regime's inhuman measures and give their support to the students' rights and just demands.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 26, 2008