The Anniversary of Students Uprising
July 9, 1999
Supplementary report from Tehran on July 8, 2010
Tehran: State of Tehran University at 5pm
An eyewitness said that from 4 to 5pm, security forces in Benz automobiles were constantly moving about outside the university. Four people were seated in the cars. They were maneuvering outside the university to scare people off and prevent protests. Bassij forces had been stationed in buildings in Piroozi Street from the night before being briefed. They were instructed to get ready for operation and attack.
Tehran: State of Tehran University at 7 to 8.30 pm
- There were clashes between Vali-e-Asr and Enqelab Streets and on the Vali-e-Asr Intersection. About 40 security forces on motorcycles were maneuvering in this area and would charge at standing bystanders.
- There were a large number of security forces in the Tehran University dormitories.
- Plainclothes agents were closing all the stores and malls in the Vali-e-Asr Intersection up to the Vali-e-Asr Square at about 8 pm. If you looked behind you while leaving the scene, they would arrest you and wherever there were large crowds, they would shoot tear gas to disperse them.
- They would take those who were arrested to the Fakhr Street and would force them lie on the floor of a parked bus.
- There were a large number of security forces stationed from Vali-e-Asr to the university and they arrested anyone with a cell-phone.
- Security forces led away three busses full of detainees with a motorcycle escort. The detainees included a 15-year-old Afghan boy and a 60-year-old woman.
Tehran – end of siege
At about 8:15 pm, security forces and plainclothes agents on motorcycles suddenly left Vali-e-Asr Square in a pre-planned measure (intentionally swerving their motorcycles) which terrorized the people on the scene.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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