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April 17, 2007
No. 1243

Iranian Information Minister: Students', Women's Movements "Subversion"; Strikes, Arrests at Iranian University

Following a statement by Iranian Information Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie that the students' movement and the women's movement were "elements of soft subversion" against the regime, Iranian security forces today arrested 15 students' movement activists from Mazandaran University.

The arrests came after a number of students launched a hunger strike, barricaded themselves in a wing of the university, and boycotted classes in response to the April 14 arrest of students' movement activist Bijan Sabagh.

Source: Rooz, ILNA, Iran, April 16, 2007


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