Posted on 06/07/2007 3:48:19 PM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, 7 June (AKI) - Abbas Hakimzadeh, the leader of the Islamic association of students at Tehran's top Amir Kabir university, was arrested Thursday while he was leaving home to attend class. He is one of the organisers of a major public protest last December against president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is a key leader of the pro-democracy movement of university students which has promoted protests in campuses nationwide against a government crackdown on civil livberties.
Last December, dozens of protesters burned pictures of Ahmadinejad crying 'dictator go away', 'death to dictatorship' and threw firecrackers when Ahmadinejad was visiting Amir Kabir. The rally forced him to interrupt several times a speech he was giving and leave before scheduled.
The students’ complaints largely mirrored public frustrations over the president’s crackdown on civil liberties, his economic policies and a Holocaust denial conference his government had organised early December.
They also protested against the president’s campaign to purge the universities of all aspects of the reform movement of his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami.
It was the first time since his landslide victory in June 2005 that Ahmadinejad had been challenged in public.
In the past few weeks, students in Tehran, Lorestan, Babol near the Caspian sea, and Shiraz in the west, have been staging protests against new government measures imposing the strict new Islamic dress codes and opening hours on campus as well as restrictions on political activity.
What are the odds that right now he’s being treated as nicely as we treat the detainees at Guantanamo?
slim to none.
is he dead yet?
They’ll probably apply some brutal torture first - to get names of other student leaders - then throw him out of the top floor of the men’s dormitory.
If they kill him he’ll become a major martyr for the students. They’ll try to convince him to cooperate via threats to his family etc.. The mullahs are living the good life in Iran, they will not give up power peacefully. Only when their backers are eliminated with they scurry out of the country like rats leaving a burning building. If that happens Saudi Arabia will make room for them and provide them with a sanctuary. Think not? Wait.
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