{"id":1180,"date":"2006-03-20T06:25:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T06:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/1180-harvard-rallies-for-students-in-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:00:41","slug":"harvard-rallies-for-students-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/harvard-rallies-for-students-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard rallies for students in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-28638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2006\/03\/university-protest.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" style=\"float: right\" alt=\"Harvard rallies for students in Iran\" title=\"Harvard rallies for students in Iran\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/university-protest.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/university-protest-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>NCRI &#8211; Some 100 students gathered in Harvard University&#8217;s Leverett House on Saturday evening for a concert and rally to denounce repression of students in Iran, where activists are being arrested for what they post on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;What we&#8217;re doing tonight is celebrating free expression,&quot; said Adam Scheuer, a Harvard senior and executive editor of the Harvard Middle East Review, one of the nine student groups that cosponsored the Iranian Freedom Concert. &#8221;We&#8217;re having bands come up and play music because we value that free expression.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>According to Boston Globe, the concert featured a diverse group of student speakers, including the president of the Harvard Republican Club, Steven Dewey; and the president of the Harvard Democrat Club, Eric Lesser.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was held just before the traditional Persian new year of Norouz, which is on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said they hoped the timing would reflect hope for &#8221;a new day for freedom in Iran.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; Some 100 students gathered in Harvard University&rsquo;s Leverett House on Saturday evening for a concert and rally to denounce repression of students in Iran, where activists are being [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-a-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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