Monday, September 25, 2006

Former secretary of Amir-Kabir University student association arrested

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi.
Keyvan Ansari, former secretary of the Amir Kabir University student association was arrested.

Abbas Hakim-zadeh, a member of the central committee of said university’s student association announcing the news, told the reporter from the regime-run news agency ILNA:On Monday, September 17th, Ansari was arrested in front of his house; he was transported to the central committee offices of the student association and after the secret police agents tossed the offices of the central committee, they took several documents with them. The nature of the arrest, the place of his detention and the charges against Ansari have not been announced and he has not, as of yet been permitted to contact his family; as such they too are worried and being kept in the dark.”