Mahdiyeh Golrou: “My dear fellow students from all universities of Iran: I am very happy that I can be with you today. I was released from one week detention Tuesday night. I am embarrassed to say that I spent only one week in jail. So many of our fellow students now in this very gathering have endured as much as one year in prison – missing school and their family. Sweat of shame sits on my forehead when I talk of one week jail time. But I am happy to have been released so quickly, because I can now speak here once again on the occasion of 16th of Azar [Students’ Day].” Mahdiyeh Golrou, an economics major at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been suspended from university and deprived of continuing her education for a semester now and has not been allowed to enter the campus of the university.
