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Fear from expansion of students' protests has made universities officials decide to close down all the dorms to prevent students from gathering

Art faculty of Tehran University
On the evening of Sunday July the 15th few students of the Art faculty of Tehran University referred to the student central office to clarify the situation with their dorm and their summer semester. Instead they found themselves brutally attacked and beaten by the security guards and police forces. A number of students were injured; the condition of some of them has been reported as critical and one of the students is admitted to the ICU of one of the nearby hospitals. From Monday and in continuation with these protests, art students went into a strike and started a mass protest refusing to show up at the exam sessions and announcing that final exams will be cancelled. During their gathering they protested against the attack on students, against the atmosphere of repression in the university. They asked the Dean of university to resign and the head of security to step down, and asked that their problems regarding the dorm and summer semester be solved. After these protests, 22 students of the art faculty of Tehran University have been called in by the disciplinary committee. Eight of these are members of the student union.

Tehran Polytechnic University
Nine students of Tehran Polytechnic University are detained at Evin prison. It is now 2 months that these students are under the most severe tortures. The Islamic government is trying to make them confess to false allegations and charges made by the government.

Ninth of July anniversary
Eight years ago, when Tehran University students started large protests against governmental terror and censorship, many ordinary people joined the protests which continued for 6 days. The government repressed the protests brutally by arresting many students and individuals, some of which are still in prison. In that day the governmental forces threw a student from a third floor window and killed him.
This year on the anniversary of the Ninth of July, students and ordinary people of Tehran gathered around Tehran Polytechnic University and Tehran University to hold a large protest. Police and anti-protest forces savagely attacked people, preventing the gathering from starting and arresting 16 students.

Tehran Allameh-Tabatabyee University
According to the news received by the CYO's news headquarter, on Saturday July 14th, students of Allameh University gathered to protest against the closure of the dorms during summer. Through one of the security guards, the Dean of the university, Mr. Shariati, asked the police forces to attack the students. Many students were injured. Some were arrested but subsequently released, except one student whose location is unknown. Students continued their protests on Sunday morning and stressing on their demands but thus far no positive response has been heard from the University Dean.
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