All the gates of the university were chain-locked by the security men and after a certain time, nobody was allowed to either go in or leave the campus. To prevent people on the streets from seeing what was going on inside the campus, the police had lined up eleven buses that acted like a wall in front of the main entrance to the school. Students on the other hand held tall placards to defy the wall and let those on the streets know why they had gathered. “People could not see the students, but they heard their calls and chants,” said one witness on the street outside. “Students Unite”, “Pinochet, Iran is not Chile”, were some of their chants. Even the clergy came to witness and some were seen surrounded by heavy guards on the streets, holding their turban with one hand and a walkie-talkie radio with the other.
Inside the university campus, students were commemorating student day. Something that they have done every year since the 1950s. This year, the organized gathering called on by Daftare Tahkim Vahdat student organization (Office for Student Solidarity) and other student groups, was called “The University is Alive”, and its goal was to commemorated the slain students while also protest the type of management that the school had been subjected to in the last 2 years. About 2,000 students gathered inside the campus and began their commemoration at midday. The placards they carried were on calls for freedom, release of labor union leader Osanloo, release of attorney Zarafshan, stop the fighting in Kurdistan, death to dictatorship, etc.
A member of the ruling council of Daftare Tahkim, which is a national umbrella organization representing the 60 universities around the country, Ali Nikoonesbati said, “I ask Mr. Khamenei: based on what law can you let a student die in prison?”
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