Three students condemned to 7.5 years in total
October 16th, 2007Pooffff. you may won’t believe it but I do. Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakkoli, Three students of the Amir Kabir University condemned to 2, 2.5 and 3 years of prison yesterday.
Around 6 months ago, one night some 1 page newsletters were distributed in the university. In the morning students found these newsletters with some sentences against religions dignity with the logos of three studental magazines.
Nobody knows if they published those papers or Hardliners did it. The students denied this the day after and told this was done by hardliners so they will be able to shutdown universities magazines and crackdown the activities.
Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakkoli arrested the day after and held in prison for 6 months. They told that they were tortured hardly but did not accepted the “crimes”. And after six months this was the news headlines: “Three students condemned to 7.5 years in total” on some websites. No newspaper will write about this in a country which
In Iran (166th), journalists are the target of very aggressive behaviour by the authorities, who tolerate no criticism or expression of political or social demands. As in the past, it is Iran that jails the largest number of journalists in the Middle East. Eight are currently held there. Many other journalists are facing serious, trumped-up charges that could result in their being imprisoned for criticising stoning or corruption, or for working for foreign news media.
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Students in Iran are traditionally under strict control. It was also so under the Shah’s dictatorship. Today, apart from pro-IRI students, other students, Muslims or not, are forced to bow to certain reactionary and undemocratic rules.
Imposed rules prohibit students not only from any political activities opposing the Islamic regime, but as reflected in the decisive restriction of Islamic norms, they violate the most private and personal affairs of individual freedom. See the following rules publicly required in a university in Abadan, a south-west city in Iran:
Prohibitions at Abadan’s Islamic Open University:
1- Wearing a T-shirt.
2- Wearing shorts
3- Wearing inappropriate shoes (sandals, slippers…)
4- Listening to or distributing un-Islamic music (via mobile phoesn of MP3 players)
5- Wearing jewelry.
6- Smoking.
7- Filming with mobile camera phones, etc.
8- Immoral mixing with strangers.
9- Behavior unbecoming of a student or Muslim.
Thanks Jadi.
[...] Three students condemned to 7.5 years in total – Jadi @ Mideast Youth [...]
Unbelievable…No offense, but our prison system isn’t that harsh!
No T-shirts? What’s with that? No pictures?
Really, now, and what’s the point of college if there’s no immoral mixing with strangers and wearing inappropriate shoes?