NCRI – Amid the Iranian Student Week called by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), student continued to stage gatherings in various Iranian cities such as Mashhad, Kerman, Mazandaran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Najaf-Abad, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Orumieh, and Khorramshahr in which a number of students were arrested by the mullahs’ regime.
Alireza Jamshidi, spokesman for the Iranian regime’s judiciary admitted to having arrested the students and said, "Twenty to thirty persons" were detained, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Monday. "A number [of students] have been arrested and are held on a variety of charges such as civil disturbance, rioting and etc," said Jamshidi.
The mullahs’ regime in its faltering state is desperately attempting to contain the rising number of demonstrations and popular uprisings by arbitrary arrests.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of all international human rights organizations and student unions to the suppressive measures imposed on students by the regime. The Iranian Resistance also calls for international support for the Iranian student movement for freedom.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 12, 2007