“Sharif University of Technology has announced this due to recent events and the need to protect students […]All courses will be held virtually from Monday,” says the Mehr agency.
According to this agency, 200 students gathered at Sharif University of Technology on Sunday afternoon and chanted slogans hostile to the religious system in force in the Islamic Republic, such as “Woman, Life, Freedom” or “Students prefer death to humiliation “.
According to the Mehr news agency, they were protesting the killing of Mahsa Amini and the arrest of students detained during recent demonstrations by Morality Police in Tehran on 16 for violating the strict dress code, which obliges women in particular to wear the veil.
The police fired paintballs, steel balls and tear gas. According to the agency, security forces and plainclothes police officers were stationed in front of the north entrance of the university on Sunday evening.
Sharif University students in Tehran are having a very difficult night. In these pictures we see the repressive forces heading towards the university, where many students are still stuck. #Iran #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/L1vo0zLcpx
— Farid Vahid (@FaridVahid) October 2, 2022
To calm the situation, the science minister entered the university to speak with the students and started a dialogue with the forces stationed around the facility, the same source added.