Mostafa Azarakhshi, a suspended member of the Faculty of Theology at Beheshti University in Tehran, introduced his dismissal.
This assistant professor supporting the protesters wrote in a observe on his Instagram web page: “They stated come and hand over your room within the college.” I went and noticed that that they had eliminated my title from the door of my room earlier than coming.”
Mostafa Azarakhshi was suspended from educating at Beheshti University in October of final 12 months through the nationwide protests of 1401 as a result of killing of Mahsa Amini within the custody of the Irshad patrol.
According to Harana, the information company of the Human Rights Activists Group, he is among the hundred professors who signed a press release demanding the discharge of protesting college students arrested final 12 months.
In current months, a variety of professors supporting the protesters, together with Hassan Bagherinia, a former professor of psychology and academic sciences at Hakim Sabzevari University, and Alireza Azad, a professor of theology at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, have confronted compelled retirement or dismissal.
Following final 12 months’s nationwide protests, which started with the central slogan “Women, Life, Freedom”, many college students joined the protesters and a variety of college professors supported them.
In response to them, the federal government of the Islamic Republic, along with suppressing the protesters and college students, has expelled many professors who usually are not in step with its insurance policies and supporters of the protests from the college.
In the center of September of this 12 months, “Jam Jam” newspaper, the press organ of the Islamic Republic of Iran Radio and Television, known as the college “a breeding floor for the opposition” and known as on the federal government of Ebrahim Raisi to fireplace the “deviant” professors extra decisively.
Earlier, dozens of college figures outdoors Iran, whereas protesting the dismissal of professors, thought-about this motion of the Islamic Republic to be a continuation of 4 many years of stress and repression in Iran’s instructional environments.
Etemad newspaper had beforehand reported that following the dismissal of tens of 1000’s of Azad University professors within the new tutorial 12 months, “first or second semester PhD college students” have changed them.