"Student Movement and the need of Today's Green Movement of Iran"- A talk by Aliakbar Mousavi
جنبش دانشجويي و نياز امروز جنبش سبز
Iranian Student Alliance in America-ISAA
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Aliakbar Mousavi (Khoeini) is a notable Iranian human rights activist and politician. He was an active member of Tahkim vahdat before he was elected as a Member of Parliament in the 6th Parliament of Iran. In the parliament, he made a significant attempt to defend the rights of political prisoners during the 1990s. Mousavi Khoeini started his political career as an activist in the Islamic Students Association of Khajeh Nasir University. Students in "Islamic Associations" are the biggest pro-democracy student groups in the universities in Iran. He was later elected to be a member of Adver Tahkim Vahdat, a representative body of Islamic Students Associations in Iran. In 1999, he was elected to the Majlis of Iran (Iranian Parliament) from the district of Tehran. He along with Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Ali Tajernia and others started the student faction in the parliament. They followed up the demands of student activists within the parliament.
In this talk he is going to talk with us about the Iranian Students in prison and their contribution to democratic movement of Iran and also the future of the movement.