NCRI – Thirty-two medical students at the college of medicine in Shiraz University were summoned to the school's disciplinary committee for wearing ties in their graduation ceremony.
A group of security guards at the door demanded that the students take their ties off. However, the students and their families resisted the order. Subsequently, all 32 students were summoned to the disciplinary committee.
In past three years, the security office at Shiraz University forced students, especially female students, to spy on other students outside the school. Had the students refused to do so, they would have been later summoned to the disciplinary committee. In one occasion the agents of the security office filmed a student party outside the university and as a result 30 students received reprehension letters from the school's authorities.
Harassment of university students has been a common practice by the mullahs' regime in Iran.
In April 2007, thousands of students at Shiraz University began their protest over mandatory dress codes set by the school administrators. They widely posted warnings on bulletin boards warning students to strictly obey the dress code.
Some huge bulletin boards were erected at the school's male dormitories with a statement ordering male students not to wear "shorts and tank tops in the dormitory's halls or where they sleep."
The students also prepared an eleven point resolution which contained their demands and on the top of the list was their request for the university president to resign.