60 Tehran University professors demand release of Maryam Abbasinejad

GVF -- Sixty professors from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences have called for the release of medical student Maryam Abbasinejad from prison.

According to the official website of the reformist faction of the Iranian parliament, professors at the university have written a letter to the president of Tehran University of Medical Sciences urging him to take necessary steps in order to secure the immediate release of student Maryam Abbasinejad.

The Parliament News website published the letter on Monday 20 May, signed by sixty professor at the university. The faculty members stressed that the activities of imprisoned student Maryam Abbasinejad had been in complete accordance with the law.

Maryam Abbasinejad is a student of medicine as well as the chairman of the Islamic Association of Tehran University students. She was arrested last Sunday around 10pm, a day after Ahmadinejad’s sudden appearance at the university on the occasion of International Labour Day.

There is currently no information available regarding Abbasinejad’s physical condition or the reason behind the arrest.