A group of university professors at Iranian universities have written a letter urging the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, to adopt a firmer stance against the Iranian regime in view of its suppression of the Iranian people’s uprising.
“In recent days, hundreds of protestors have been violently beaten and fired at by the State Security Force and plain-clothes agents,” the lecturers noted in their letter.
“The clashes have led to the killing of a number of people while hundreds have been imprisoned. Those arrested are deprived of having legal representation, and credible reports indicate that the Iranian regime, in accordance with its long tradition, has placed pressure on many of those arrested to confess to treachery, something they have not committed.”
The professors reminded the UN Secretary General in their letter that, “The Iranian regime must realize that unjustified imprisonment of citizens, violent suppression of peaceful protests, illegal arrests, and obtaining confessions through torture, are all examples of breaches of international law.”
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