Tehran 7 December 2002,Security and plainclothes forces clashed with Iranian students demonstrating Saturday in Tehran and other major cities against the regime on the occasion of the Student Day, 16 Azar(7 Decemebr).
In Tehran, demonstration started
peacefully earlier in the day in the campus of Tehran Universty. But a large
group of students, estimated at 4.000 to 5.000 came out of the university.
They were brutally attacked by security and plainclothe forces who are believed
to be the members of the Islamist thugs known as Ansar Hezbollah. During
this attack a number of students were wounded and tens of others were arrested.
In response to this brutality,
Students chanted slogans against the senior leaders of the Islamic regime
such as "Down with Dictatorship" ,"Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
is living like a king but the people are begging", "Khatami resign,
resign".
A correspondent for the French news agency AFP said police stormed the students
after tha demonstrators called for the resignation the country's chief of
Judiciary, the Iraqi-born Ayatollah Mahmood Hashemi-Shahroodi.
Students and people who had joined
them outside the university doors ptotested the existing situation in the
country and called for freedom of all political prisoners as well as the
press.