Just a day after Iran’s President Ahmadinejad visited Science and Technology University ‎‎(Elm va Sanaat) amid tight security in which over a thousand Basij students from ‎different university participated, reports point to more crackdown of student activists in ‎the near future. Political analysts believe that as student day (December 7th) approaches, ‎the crackdown on student activists will intensify in an effort to contain the events of the ‎day.‎

Just two days ago, reports indicated that two students were summoned to revolutionary ‎courts and six others were summoned to university disciplinary boards. Prior to this, ‎before the current school term began, reports had circulated warning that student active in ‎political or administrative work would be summoned, and in fact two members of the ‎student Tahkim Vahdat organization were arrested again. After that, reports emerged that ‎they had been violently treated during their detention and while in prison. ‎

Ali Azizi and Ali Nikoonesbati are the two arrested members of Iran’s largest student ‎organization. Recent news reports have shown the mistreatment that Azizi was subjected ‎to in Evin prison which prompted him to be taken to the clinic of the prison’s notorious ‎ward 209. Reports on Nikoonesbati confirm that he has been treated similarly.‎

Daftar Tahkim Vahdat student organization issued a statement strongly condemning the ‎arrest of its two central council members and maintained that the purpose of the arrests ‎was to coerce students to stop their critical activism. “These arrests will not effect the ‎determination of the members of the organization in publicly speaking about the rights of ‎people and students,” the statement read. “But the arrests show that the state does not ‎have the minimum tolerance for the slightest criticism.”‎

In other related developments, reports speak of the summons of at least 2 students to a ‎Revolutionary Court, six student activists to administrative boards, one student to the ‎Ministry of Intelligence and a reprimand that was issued to another student.‎

According ISNA student news agency, a former secretary of the College of Sociology of ‎Alame Tabatabai University was summoned to a Revolutionary Court. The university’s ‎security office obtained his “commitment” to appear in court again on a pre-designated ‎date.‎

According to another ISNA report, six students from the same college have been ‎summoned to the university’s disciplinary board. At the board, they learned that they are ‎accused of “organizing protesting gatherings, breaking a university gate, and participation ‎in the gathering at Amir Kabir University.”‎

ISNA also reported that Babak Zamanian, a student activist from Amir Kabir University ‎was summoned to the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court. The Student Committee of ‎the Human Rights Reporters (Gozareshgarane Hoghoogh Bashar) also reported the ‎summons of a student to the Ministry of Intelligence. According to this report Mehdi ‎Alahyari, the editor and writer of Toloo student publication belonging to Tehran ‎University, who is also a Masters student in chemistry at Sharif University was ‎summoned to the security office of the Sharif University to explain the illegal publication ‎and distribution of printed material on campus. This student was also interrogated by ‎agents of the Ministry of Intelligence for three hours and then summoned to another ‎bureau of the ministry for follow up questioning.‎

And as pressures on university students increase across the country, Ehsan Mansuri, ‎Ahmad Ghasaban and Majid Tavakoli, all of whom had been imprisoned in the past, were ‎once again summoned by the Revolutionary Court where they were tried. The same court ‎had sentenced these three students to 7.5 years of imprisonment in the past. This time, the ‎charges against them were insults to the sacred values and to religious leaders. In their ‎earlier trials, they had been charged with insulting the leader of the state and engaging in ‎publicity against the state. According to Amir Kabir University news bulletin ‎‎(Khabarname Amir Kabir) the judge had announced a few hours before the trial that the ‎trial would be held in camera. Contrary to normal procedures, the families of these three ‎students were deliberately misinformed about their whereabouts so that they would not ‎have the opportunity to meet their imprisoned family members while they were being ‎taken from the prison to the court house. At the same time, the Iranian Human Rights ‎Activists organization (Faalane Hoghooge Bashar dar Iran) announced that these three ‎students were mistreated before they were transferred to the court house from the prison. ‎Contrary to prison regulations, prison authorities had tried to board these student ‎prisoners onto buses with handcuffs and blindfolds, a measure that was challenged by ‎other student prisoners, leading to clashes between the guards and the inmates.‎