A number of Kurdish students were beaten and arrested during a peaceful demonstration at the University of Tehran, a Kurdish MP said Wednesday.
Bahaeddine Adab, who represents the principal Kurdish area of Sanandaj and is close to the conservatives, reported the incident in parliament, where he denounced the "secret police" for not respecting the right to demonstrate.
He said that he and two other Kurdish MPs who attended the demonstration Tuesday were treated "without regard" by the police.
"Plainclothes policemen intervened and began insulting and beating the demonstrators and arrested a number of them," he said, without giving a number.
Adab demanded their immediate release.
On November 28, reformist Kurdish MP Jalal Jalalizadeh denounced before parliament what he said was a campaign of repression and serial killings against the some six-million-strong Kurdish minority in Iran. This included prohibition of religious freedom for the Sunni Muslim Kurds, in a country that has a Shiite Muslim majority, he said -- TEHRAN (AFP)
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