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| | Iran Focus-Iran university students on hunger strike as protests rise - Special Wire - News |
 | | Tehran, Jun. 06 — Students in the University of Yazd (central Iran) have started a hunger strike today in protest against a recent government clampdown on student activists. |
 | | Universities of Tehran, Amir Kabir (Tehran), Zanjan, Isfahan, Jahrom, Khoy, Shahr-e Kord and Zabol are among the universities across the country that have witnessed student protests and, on some occasions, clashes between students and security forces in recent days. |
 | | Last week, eight students in Tehran University, including Karim Assayesh, an activist in Tehran University’s Law School, were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee to face expulsion. |
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