TEHRAN — Groups of Iranian students
clashed on Sunday at a leading university in the capital
Tehran, local media
reported, amid weeks-long nationwide protests over the death of Mahsa Amini.
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The Islamic republic has been gripped by
demonstrations triggered by the death of the 22-year-old Amini on September 16
after her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for
women.
Street violence has led to dozens of deaths, mostly
among demonstrators but also among the security forces, and hundreds of
protesters have been arrested.
Classes at Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University of
Technology were suspended and moved online earlier this month following clashes
between protesting students and security forces.
Tasnim news agency reported that when classes
resumed on Saturday, “a number of female students entered the men’s dining hall
after removing their hijab”, breaching Iran’s rules on gender segregation in
some public spaces and mandatory headscarves for women.
On Sunday, a group of students “held a rally ...
protesting against the insults and desecration that had occurred at the
university”, Tasnim said.
The students, waving the Iranian flag, called on the
university’s administration “to deal with lawlessness and violation of norms”
on its campus, the report added.
A separate group of students “chanted vulgar
slogans, broke the door and windows of the dining hall and threw them towards
the students inside”, Tasnim said, adding that “some students and university
security personnel” were injured.
The news agency published a video purportedly
showing students kicking the door as others were blocking it from inside the
dining hall.
Students banned
The university said on
Sunday it had barred entry to “a small number of students” over their role in
“creating an uneasy atmosphere”, local media reported.
The students were “temporarily banned from attending
the university for their own benefit and for the benefit of the university”,
Shargh newspaper quoted the statement as saying.
On October 2, riot police confronted about 200
students who had gathered at Sharif University and chanted slogans against the
authorities, Mehr news agency reported.
The forces used tear gas and paintballs, Mehr said,
adding that officers carried weapons that shoot non-lethal steel pellets.
Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi said on
Saturday that protests in universities and elsewhere have subsided.
“There are various gatherings in some universities,
which are decreasing every day, and the riots are going through their final
days,” state news agency IRNA quoted Mirahmadi as saying.
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