Published on Rooz Online, 6 November 2009
source (English): http://www.roozonline.com/english/news/newsitem/article/2009/november/06//commander-tells-his-force-to-violently-strike-at- people-1.html
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PRACH with Bahareh Hedayat, a senior member of the student alumni organization Daftar Tahkim Vahdat, whose leading members in the wake of unrest following the presidential election in Iran on 12 June had been arrested. Topic of conversation was the recent arrests and the student demonstrations on 4 November. "I've even heard one of the Pasdaran Guards commander his men that the protesters were threatening with their batons only instructed not to be lenient and to beat them," she said. woman Hedayat, a prominent student activist, said of the demonstrations on Wednesday: "At 10 clock in the morning about 5,000 people demonstrated at Tehran University Avenue Quds They were stopped by the locked gates that they should prevent the campus. to leave. So were the demonstrators returned to the university and went from there cure on the way to the main entrance. They stayed for hours in about 20 meters away from the university and shouted slogans. All a bit wearing in the green color of the opposition movement. Some strong slogans were changed. etwa50 the margins were paramilitary Basijis, the provocative slogans shouted, such as' Death to the hypocrites. "Even A few members of the university police were on campus, behind it were the special forces of the Pasdaran-Garden. Then they brought water cannons to disperse the students and threaten. . Outside the university, she had set up buses to shield the students from the public, "
They also reported:" The students really wanted the former U.S. Embassy to go and gather there, but the government agents had a handful of pro-government demonstrators in the same street (Taleghani Avenue) set up and allowed the demonstrators public not to go there. In fact, they wanted to keep all their supporters in one place and give the impression that a very large crowd had gathered for the demonstration. But in many parts of Tehran, including Vali Asr Square, Argentina Square, Vali Asr Avenue, Motahari Avenue and adhesion-e Tir Square, I was even - there was the public present. Of course the security forces did not allow the people could rally, if there were more than 50, attacked the special forces, brutally beat the men and drove them apart. Garden then channeled to the demonstrators into side streets, and there they attacked them and beat them anywhere. They used a lot of pepper spray and tear gas. "
When asked how violent But police, she said: "They had absolutely no qualms I have even heard one of the commanders of the Pasdaran Guards his men that the protesters were threatening with their batons only instructed not to be lenient and to beat them.. He urged his forces to hit people, especially those who were separated from the rest of the crowd. They have been very severely beaten. "
The slogans that were used, commented as follows: "The slogans, which have caused the students, is very different from those that were used outside the University (the campus) One of the most radical slogans outside the university. was "Khamenei, you're a criminal, and your regime is void." Within the university, the slogans were even stronger.
The arrests during the last 48 hours saith Bahareh Hedayat. "On Wednesday after midnight, Mohammad Hashemi's house had been searched, the occupants of the house asking for search warrants and documents, but the agents did not and broke after an hour the front door to and went inside. They combined Hashemi hands and eyes and then began the search, without having to make a list of the items in the house, which is absolutely illegal. They left the house then to have arrested without someone. But today they came as civilians again and arrested Mohammad Hashemi. He was about six or seven hours in jail and then released. Wednesday night they were also arrested by the Central Council of Milad Assadi Daftar Tahkim Vahdat, who was not at home. The two Central Committee members Mohammad Sadeghi Hassan Assadi has been arrested and three nights. "
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