demonstration outside the campus of Tehran University
An injured student from the Hemmat dormitory of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2003 shows a knife wound in the back. Dozens of militants stormed at least two university dormitories, beating up students in their beds and detaining several of them as violence aimed at silencing government critics raged through Iran's capital.
Police stand guard at Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University as students protest in the streets in front of the university in the early hours of June 12, 2003. Iranians demanding change staged their biggest protest in months on Wednesday, chanting slogans against powerful Muslim clerics they accuse of limiting freedoms and the reformist government for failing to rein them in.
Police officers block the street during a protest against the country's hard-line establishment, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2003.
A broken door of a student's room is seen at the Hemmat dormitory of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2003. Dozens of militants stormed at least two university dormitories, beating up students in their beds and detaining several of them as violence aimed at silencing government critics raged through Iran's capital.
Chanting slogans during a student protest against privatizing some of Iran's universities that turned into a larger demonstration against the hard-line clerics that rule the country, Tuesday, June 10, 2003. About 300 male students had gathered outside dormitories at Tehran University, along with 200 women who were demonstrating from inside its gates. The men then started marching up and down a main street nearby and were joined by about 300 people. 'The clerical regime is nearing its end,' the protesters chanted.
The 11th of July 2003, the government of Iran officially announced the death of Ziba Zahra Kazemi, http://www.zahrakazemi.com/ Canadian photojournalist. The agents of the Iranian government have beaten and tortured her, because she was faithful to the truth, because she was doing her work. The government of Iran thus inscribed one more time its systematic violation of human rights in the pages of history. It shrugs his shoulders: it did it thousands of times before, and, with the almost unanimous silence of the international community, the absence of concrete measures from the government of Canada, it continues. Despite of the unanimous protest of Ziba Kazemis family and the Canadian government, her body has still not been repatriated to her home, in Montreal, Canada. For the murderers, theyre still governing the country. Ziba was a 54 years old woman, she has during the last decade of her life, dedicated her work to photography, and to journalism. Having traveled in more than twenty countries, photographic camera and a pen in hands, she well knew her profession. Always loyal to herself, Ziba has defended her convictions and her rights without compromise, until her last days. http://www.amnestyinternational.be/doc/article6391.html http://www.aivl.be/index.cfm?PageID=647
Leading Dissident's Life in Danger: End Persecution of Peaceful Critics New York, July 13, 2005 {Human Rights Watch) -- The life of Akbar Ganji, Iran?s imprisoned leading dissident, is under serious threat due to his illness and a month-long hunger strike, Human Rights Watch said today. Ganji, an investigative journalist who was sentenced to prison by the Iranian government in 2000, has lost more than 40 pounds during the past month >>> Full texternment in 2000, has lost more than 40 pounds during the past month >>> Full text