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Iran
Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Apr. 02 – Iran’s security forces have
arrested several student activists responsible for the publication of
campus newspapers in two Iranian universities, government-run
Persian-language websites reported on Sunday.
Aslan Kamrani, editor
of student paper Ael Sesi,
was one of the individuals arrested. The paper is distributed in the University of Zahedan in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan in south-eastern
Iran.
Asgar Nouri, editor of
the student paper Birlik, was arrested in the
Iranian capital. Birlik is distributed in Tehran’s Allameh Tabatabi University.
Another activist, Jaber Moussavi,
has been detained on similar charges.
Two other students, Moharram Kamrani
and Ibrahim Rashidi,
have been arrested for their role in the publication of an Azeri paper. Azeris are Iran’s largest ethnic minority.
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