London, May 23 Hundreds of university students rallied on campus at the University of Tehran on Monday in protest to the increasing police brutality against students liberties.
The rally took place at the universitys Technical Faculty, according to a statement received from a student group that took part in the protests. Security forces were rushed to the scene to quell the unrest.
The demonstrators highlighted the recent case of a Kurdish student from the universitys social sciences faculty whose fingers had been broken with a metal baton by members of the herasat, or security agents, for distributing student papers on campus.
They also protested against the systematic crackdown on mixed-sex gatherings outside the universitys main entrance as well as university officials incompetence.
Death to dictatorship, the students chanted. There were also chants of forget about becoming nuclear, think about us and we dont want a fascist university.
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