Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Protests at Tehran University during visit of Ahmadinejad
When Ahmadinejad surprisingly visited the campus of the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran on monday, a protest among the students broke out. Like one year ago at the mass protests in Tehran, this incident was uncovered by citizen journalists, filming videos and taking pictures with their cellphones. Although there was no big media echo The Lede Blog, written by Robert Mackey for the New York Times posted three videos that apparently showed yesterdays protests. In these videos you can see at least several hundred students protesting and chanting phrases like "Freedom" or “Today is a day of mourning. Ahmadinejad, the liar, is our guest today” (Both quotes translated). There is no evidence wether the protests had any link to the execution of five prisoners the day before, but as these executions were seen controversial, it is very likely that they had at least some influence on the protesters.
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