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To: Human rights’, workers’ and student organisations

Shiraz University students in Iran need your urgent support!

Dear colleagues and friends

I am writing to inform you that in the last few days the students of the University of Shiraz in Iran have been subjected to heavy and wholesale persecution by the Islamic regime in Iran. Scores of students have been suspended from their studies and/or arrested by the security forces for taking part in the Student Day (Dec 7th) rallies and for protesting against the regime for its repression and imposition of economic austerity.

37 students have been summoned by the University’s Disciplinary Committee, of whom 18 have been suspended for a period of 28 terms in total. However, this is not the end of the story. Ten students were called to report to the Intelligence Ministry’s headquarters in the city of Shiraz, upon which they were all arrested and detained. Some of those students have been released on heavy bail; however, seven are still in jail.

Despite these attacks, students of the University of Shiraz have not remained silent and are continuing to hold protest rallies to demand the release of their colleagues. In their gatherings students have been vehemently speaking out against the Islamic regime’s leaders, Ayatollah Khamenei, President Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Assembly leader, Larijani. Alarmed by the protests, the regime has launched a brutal suppression of the students.

Students’ demands include:

Immediate and unconditional release of all their detained colleagues;
Revoking of all disciplinary orders;
Revoking of all detention and summons orders;
Revoking of all bail orders;
Dismantling of the University’s draconian Disciplinary Committee and Security.

I urge you to condemn the Islamic Republic for its acts of repression and for its crimes against the people, to support Shiraz students and their just demands and to call on the regime in Iran to immediately and unconditionally accept the students’ demands.

Regards

Khalil Keyvan（国外組織委員長）
Secretary of WPI’s Organisation Abroad
15 Jan 2009