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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Maziar Motamedi

Riot police raid Iran’s Sharif University after student protest

Protests in Iran have been ongoing since September 17, after a 22-year-old died after she was detained by the country's morality police [File: WANA (West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Several students have been arrested in a raid on a top university in Tehran by Iranian security forces as protests that began more than two weeks ago over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody continue.

Students were demonstrating inside the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in the capital on Sunday afternoon when riot police surrounded the university for several hours, trapping the students and leaving several injured, before arresting a number of them in the latest crackdown on protesters, according to an official university students’ association and reports on local outlets.

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