Students blindfolded and taken to unknown locations

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

Based on received reports from Tehran, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of the Ahmadinejad administration have begun a new reign of terror on student activists. The reports confirm that many student activists have received phone calls from MOIS agents who have summoned them to hotels and various other odd types of places in order to undergo long interrogations. Sometimes they even arrange to meet students in the street; kidnapping and blindfolding them, the students are then driven to unknown locations.

The students undergo brutal interrogations that go on for hours and days where they are asked about various other student leaders and plans for actions; the students are also forced to surrender the names of their fellow activists who write the calls to protests, speeches, statements as well as the subjects of any upcoming statements and speeches.

Students who are arrested are forced to cooperate otherwise they or their families and friends are physically threatened. Several activists who refused to cooperate were explicitly told that MOIS would frame them and manufacture charges. READ MORE

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