
Students at the University of Babol are demanding the release of 15 classmates, arrested five days ago. Here's a quick summary:
Police on Sunday evening arrested 15 students at the university of Babol, in Mazanderan province, bordering the Caspian Sea in the north. The 15 were staging a protest against the arrest on Saturday of Bijan Sabbah, the leader of the local students' association, and had organized a hunger strike at the local campus to attract the public's attention to his case.
Ali Nikunesbati, spokesman for Tahkim Vahdat, Iran's main students' association, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that he considered the arrests at the university of Mazanderan "a direct consequence of recent statements by ministers of the Ahmadinejad government who said that grassroots movements, especially womens' rights and students' groups, are tools of the enemy."
"The real problem is the inability of the current government to confront the real problems of society and respond to the needs of the people," he said. "It is no coincidence that along with women and students, teachers and labour workers are the ones who are protesting today."






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