Tehran University chancellor wants follow-up to dorm attack probe

Tehran University president Farhad Rahbar has called on the police and judiciary to launch an investigation into the attacks against student in their dormitories during the recent post-election unrest.

""The police and judiciary should follow up the dormitories' incident,"" ILNA quoted Rahbar as saying.

Tehran was gripped with several days of protests after the 10th presidential election saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected by a landslide.

A violent attack on Tehran University's student dormitories by men without uniforms on June 14, two days after the disputed election, resulted in serious injuries to many students and destruction of their - and university's - properties, according to Rahbar.

He also denied a comment by a Principlist parliamentarian that he had issued a permit for the police to enter the dormitories.

Earlier, lawmaker Mohsen Kouhkan had said that alleged members of the police force entered the dorms after they were given a green light by the university's president.

However, Rahbar ""strongly"" rejected the remarks by the Majlis Presiding Board member, saying, ""I had made no request for the entrance of the police personnel into the Tehran University dormitory.""

Rahbar noted that ""less than five students are in hospital"" due to the attacks.

At least 20 people were killed and many more injured in the protests by supporters of defeated candidates who dismissed the official results as “fraudulent” and called for a repeat election.

(Source: Press TV)

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