Iranian university students protest food quality
TEHRAN: Around 150 Iranian university students held a protest on Sunday chanting political slogans and demanding the resignation of university officials, the ISNA student news agency said on Monday.
“About 150 students started a demonstration to protest at the quality of food and demanded that some university officials resign,” the report said adding that demonstrators also shouted political slogans.
“The students broke a campus gate and tried to get out but the police pushed them back,” a university official, identified only by his last name Ghamsari, said of the protest at Tehran University’s dormitory compound.
Student websites said the protestors, who they reported numbered several hundred, chanted “Release jailed students” and slogans against the police and Tehran University head, Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani.
Students at Tehran’s main universities have staged regular demonstrations in past months calling for the release of jailed colleagues and criticising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dozens of Iranian students have been arrested in recent months but Iran’s judiciary said last week an unspecified number have been released on bail.
“About 150 students started a demonstration to protest at the quality of food and demanded that some university officials resign,” the report said adding that demonstrators also shouted political slogans.
“The students broke a campus gate and tried to get out but the police pushed them back,” a university official, identified only by his last name Ghamsari, said of the protest at Tehran University’s dormitory compound.
Student websites said the protestors, who they reported numbered several hundred, chanted “Release jailed students” and slogans against the police and Tehran University head, Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani.
Students at Tehran’s main universities have staged regular demonstrations in past months calling for the release of jailed colleagues and criticising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dozens of Iranian students have been arrested in recent months but Iran’s judiciary said last week an unspecified number have been released on bail.