Press Conference on Iran: Student Leaders Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian
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press release 
Thursday September 25, 2008 15:11
by Mark Fischer
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Invitation to attend a Press Conference on Iran
Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian
IBehrooz Karimizadeh, one of the prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran, who has recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Iranian security forces; Kaveh Abbasian, the spokesperson for the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, who was subjected to months of persecution, are holding a public Press Conference in London. During this Press Conference they will elaborate on the latest political situation in Iran and will answer questions put to them.
This Press Conference is the first public presence of these student activists outside Iran. This is an ample opportunity find out about the latest situation of the student movement in Iran, the clamp downs, arrests and detentions, the conditions inside the Iranian prisons and the latest wave of suppression levelled against other groups and movements, and the prospect of the student movement in Iran.
We invite all concerned organisations and institutions, news media, political parties and those following the political development and the student movement in Iran to attend.
Date and Time: Monday September 29, 2008, 2-4 pm
Venue: Malet Room
University of London Union (ULU)
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HY
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Jump To Comment: 1On Sunday 5th Oct a group of Iranian students gathered in front of the Islamic Majlis (parliament) in Tehran protesting at their expulsion and other restrictions imposed on them by the university authorities. These students are known as "marked students" - a term used by the Ministry of Higher Education to describe students with no security clearance from the Ministry of Intelligence following their protest activities.
The State Security Forces cordoned off the protesters and did not allow them access to Majlis. The Ministry of Education has refused to issue 17 of the graduates their degrees, saying that since they have no security clearance they are not eligible to receive a diploma. A number of students were arrested and transferred to the police precinct in Enqelab Square, according to their relatives.
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