20 students summoned at Gilan University

The committee is also in the process taking measures against students who were arrested during the 4 November demonstrations. Iranians across the nation marched on that day in opposition to the Ahmadinejad government which they deem illegitimate.

The level of opposition to Saffar Harandi’s speech was such that instead of delivering his speech he mainly responded to the students who were unhappy about his presence in their university. He was forced to hastily end his speech before it was complete.

Although no official verdict has been handed down to the students who disrupted Harandi’s speech, a university official has been quoted as telling one of the protestors that  “we will deal with you in such a way that no one will ever be tempted to protest again.”

Student activists are concerned that the recent conducts of the university are being orchestrated by security and intelligence bodies outside the university which tend to undermine the university’s independence.

University officials have also prevented the publication of a cultural student journal after it published a two reports regarding the disrupted Saffar Harandi speech and the arrest of student activist Seyed Kouhzad Esmaeili who was arrested in the morning of 4 November and moved to a prison in the city of Rasht in order to serve a four month prison sentence.