(AKI) - Another student of a top Tehran university, the Amir Kabir Polytechnic, was arrested on Monday. Meghdad Khalilpur, a member of the university's reformist Islamic association of students, is also an editor of the students' publication Atieh (Future). He was reportedly arrested by plainclothes officials near the university campus. Many students at the university have been arrested in the past few days including Babak Zamanian, a students' spokesman. All are reportedly accused of 'contacts with foreign powers to overthrow the Islamic government'.
Many of those arrested are in contact with western media and committees formed abroad in support of Iranian reformist students, such as 'Tehran 2007', an Italian bipartisan body set up last December. University students in Tehran, Lorestan, Babol near the Caspian sea, and Shiraz in the west, are rallying against new government measures imposing strict new dress codes and opening hours on campus as well as restrictions on political activity. At Amir Kabir scuffles broke out last week between reformist and pro-government students who are demanding a purge of liberal and western influence from universities. |