Riot police raid Iran’s Sharif University after student protest

College students at Sharif College in Tehran had been demonstrating on the sixteenth day of protests after Mahsa Amini’s loss of life.

Protests in Iran have been ongoing since September 17, after a 22-year-old died after she was detained by the nation's morality police [File: WANA (West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – A number of college students have been arrested in a raid on a prime college in Tehran by Iranian safety forces as protests that started greater than two weeks in the past over the loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody proceed.

College students have been demonstrating inside the distinguished Sharif College of Know-how within the capital on Sunday afternoon when riot police surrounded the college for a number of hours, trapping the scholars and leaving a number of injured, earlier than arresting plenty of them within the newest crackdown on protesters, in accordance with an official college college students’ affiliation and studies on native retailers.

Demonstrations have been ongoing in universities in Tehran and throughout the nation since they started on September 17 in Saqqez, Amini’s residence city within the western province of Kurdistan. She died on September 16 after being arrested days earlier by Iran’s morality police, who had decided that she was not following Iran’s “modest” costume code guidelines.

The state-run IRNA information web site stated nobody was killed throughout the unrest at Sharif College, which additionally noticed a whole bunch – together with the involved households of scholars caught inside – flock to the streets surrounding the campus.

The campus was ultimately cleared, however surrounding streets remained busy till after midnight. After Sunday’s occasions, Sharif College introduced that every one courses could be held on-line till additional discover.

Saturday and Sunday additionally noticed demonstrations in different main universities in Tehran and cities like Shiraz, Mashhad and Sanandaj.

In some cities, together with Tehran, protests spilled into the streets as nicely.

The protests have continued regardless of extreme web restrictions which have blocked entry to all social media platforms and intensify from the afternoon to midnight every day.

On Saturday, Iranians residing overseas stated they'd organised demonstrations in additional than 150 cities throughout the globe, with 1000's attending.

Dozens of individuals have been killed throughout the protests in Iran, and an unknown quantity arrested. No official tallies have been launched to this point.

Protesters have demanded an finish to the costume code imposed on ladies in Iran, one thing the Iranian authorities has rejected.

Iranian authorities have tried to solid the unrest as “riots” quite than “protests” and have stated international powers and Kurdish secessionist actions have incited unrest.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has attacked what it says are bases operated by Kurdish separatist teams located in Iraq, most notably in a September 28 assault that killed at the least 13 folks.

Lawmakers on Sunday chanted “Thanks, police” and “Down with Israel” in a televised session of parliament, expressing their assist for the institution and Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who spoke for the primary time on the protests on Monday, saying that he supported Iran’s safety forces.

Lawmakers have additionally invited Amini’s household to go to the parliament and talk about the outcomes of an investigation into her loss of life that's anticipated to yield its ultimate outcomes inside days.

Amini’s household have refuted a declare by authorities that she was not overwhelmed and that her loss of life of an obvious stroke in police custody was brought on by pre-existing circumstances.

Their lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, advised the Etemad newspaper in an interview printed on Sunday that officers who arrested her have been geared up with physique cameras, a declare Tehran’s police drive has rejected.