HRANA News Agency: Several students from Beheshti University have been summoned
The human rights news agency HRANA has reported that a group of students from Shahid Beheshti University have been summoned following the release of a statement protesting the dismissal of Ahmad Shokarchi and other professors from this university.
According to HRANA, following the release of a protest statement by the students of this university regarding the termination of cooperation with Ahmad Shokarchi, a sociology professor, the university’s security office repeatedly contacted the students who signed the statement and summoned them to the security office along with their parents.
One of the students from this university told HRANA that the students summoned by the security office were pressured to reveal the identity of the statement’s author and were threatened with expulsion from their studies.
In part of their statement, the protesting students wrote that the Shahid Beheshti Social Sciences group has faced the dismissal of two professors in less than four years. No explanation regarding the reasons and processes of these decisions has been given to the students, and today we demand a fully transparent and satisfactory response regarding these unjust terminations; otherwise, this is an injustice done to all of us, making our group’s environment more closed, weaker, and more one-sided than before.
Pressures on university professors and students in Iran have sharply increased following last year’s protest movement, and in recent months, dozens of university professors have been suspended or dismissed from their academic positions for supporting protesting students.