35% of Detainees of Nationwide Uprising Are Students and 90% Are Under 25 Years of Age Monday, 08 January 2018 08:54 Print Email Iran Uprising -No. 41 Call for immediate action by international assemblies to release all detainees According to a classified report obtained from inside the regime, 35% of those arrested during the uprising of the Iranian people are students. Earlier, IRGC brigadier Hossein Zolfaghari, security deputy Minister of Interior, announced that more than 90% of the detainees are juveniles and teenagers with an average age of under 25 (state media – January 1st). Meanwhile, Mohammad Sadeghi, a member of the Committee on Education and Research of the Majlis, reported that 90 university students had been arrested, and said, “there is no accurate information on the number of detainees and that the number of detainees may be higher.” At a closed session of the Majlis on Sunday, January 7th, a number of parliamentarians cal...