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Iranwire – The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master’s student in economics at the University of Tehran to one year in prison for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic, as the authorities are intensifying their efforts to control the universities’ population which has been at the forefront of the 2022 uprising.
Parisa Salehi was also handed a two-year travel ban and a two-year exile, along with a ban on online activities.
The student said that her and her family’s homes had been searched twice by agents of the Karaj Intelligence Department in the past few months.
The moves are seen as part of the authorities’ broader strategy to silence student protesters from the Women, Life, Freedom movement and prevent further demonstrations in university campuses.
Students at Tehran’s Al-Zahra University say security officials are scrutinizing the work of art students, compiling a list of names associated with creations “representing nudity and unconventional subjects.”
Since nationwide protests erupted in September 2022, authorities have been clamping down on any sign of dissent at universities with arrests, intrusive high-tech surveillance, the dismantling of student organizations and purging of professors.
Many students have faced sentences such as imprisonment and flogging, while others have been expelled from universities or suspended from their studies.
