Massive swoop of Mazandaran University by the secu

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Massive swoop of Mazandaran University by the security forces and student abductions

By Iranian Revolutionary Socialist Youth

Tuesday, 17 April 2007

According to reports received from Mazandaran University, in northern Iran, abductions of students by the security and information forces have entered a new stage. On Sunday night (15 April), the security and information forces entered the university compound and following clashes with protesting students abducted 15 of them. At present the university is occupied and swamped by these forces.

Also on Sunday night, 15 protesting students from Babol University (three of whom are on hunger strike), were attacked by the security forces when they were alone in the university. After clashes they were abducted and transferred to an undisclosed location. There is still no further information about them. Together with Bijan Sabagh (who was the first one arrested) the total number of abducted students has now reached sixteen. The names of some of the others are:

1- Alireza Kolarstaghi
2- Hooman Sharifi
3- Omid Mosharaf-zadeh
4- Ali Ahmadi
5- Mehdi Sharifan-nasab
6- Ali Taghipoor
7- Zia Navabi
8- Said Yaghoobinejad



Three plain-clothes officers in a white car briefly abducted another student on Sunday night. After interrogation and a beating he was released on a remote road.

The families of the abducted students protested in front of university. Babol University is now swamped by the security and information forces and lectures have been suspended.

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Iranian Revolutionary Socialist Youth
16 April 2007