"Birgeneau, an administrator who presided over the beating and arrest of student protesters, is portrayed as a free-speech martyr," he said.
The detention of prominent people has added to multiple arrests of students at Iran's universities.
"You have so many arrests of students just because they carry posters calling for a better education," Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere, of the European Stability Initiative, told me.
But many of their calls were thwarted, with curbs on protesters and the arrests of students and journalists that led to the US withdrawing security assistance.
Students and teachers at Bir Zeit University, the leading Palestinian academic institution in the West Bank, have suspended classes indefinitely to protest arrests of students by the Palestinian security forces.
Officials said at least five Islamic militants from the Gaza Strip were preparing explosives for use in Israeli cities. A10 West Bank Arrests Protested Students and teachers at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank have suspended classes indefinitely to protest the arrests of students by Palestinian security forces after a group of students stoned Prime Minister Lionel Jospin of France.
Further, the INS engaged in mass arrests of students who had violated the terms of their visas; all of these students were from Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
This was accomplished through deliberate tactics such as police raids on schools, police inspections of student belongings, mass arrests of students and teachers, and the use of students as forced laborers, often by transporting them to Germany as seasonal workers.
