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Sun, 08/21/2011 - 14:16
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Iranian Students Condemn British Gov't for Suppressing Protestors
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian university students in a letter to British Charge de Affairs in Iran Jean Marriot voiced their strong protest against the British government's crackdown on protestors and the deteriorating human rights conditions in the European country.
In the letter presented by Secretary-General of Students' Islamic Society Union Mohammad Pahlavan on Sunday, the Iranian students also deplored the violent behavior and methods used by the British police against the protestors, like using dogs during the detention process.
"Under these conditions, the Iranian nation and government assume support for the British people as their duty like what they did in providing support for the Bahraini, Iraqi, Palestinian and all other countries which have sustained harm due to the direct meddling of the US in their states or their governments' support for the US policies," the letter added.
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests later spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
Meantime, British courts were accused of yielding to the government pressures, with judges and magistrates handing out unduly harsh sentences to young people involved in the recent unrests after being reportedly advised to "tear up" normal sentencing guidelines when dealing with convicted protestors.
MPs and rights activists expressed concern over "naming and shaming" of young protestors and giving them long sentences as part of the Conservative-led coalition's crackdown on unrests.
In the letter presented by Secretary-General of Students' Islamic Society Union Mohammad Pahlavan on Sunday, the Iranian students also deplored the violent behavior and methods used by the British police against the protestors, like using dogs during the detention process.
"Under these conditions, the Iranian nation and government assume support for the British people as their duty like what they did in providing support for the Bahraini, Iraqi, Palestinian and all other countries which have sustained harm due to the direct meddling of the US in their states or their governments' support for the US policies," the letter added.
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests later spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
Meantime, British courts were accused of yielding to the government pressures, with judges and magistrates handing out unduly harsh sentences to young people involved in the recent unrests after being reportedly advised to "tear up" normal sentencing guidelines when dealing with convicted protestors.
MPs and rights activists expressed concern over "naming and shaming" of young protestors and giving them long sentences as part of the Conservative-led coalition's crackdown on unrests.
