I've already received this via email,if you are (or were) a Sharif student and if you think Arash Hashemi and Hojjat Sharifi's arrests are illegal, sign these petition on lsp.persianblog.com/
> Dear Friends,
>
> Salaam
>
> I know some of you have already signed the petition,
> but we need more than this: Contact all of your
> friends from Sharif in North America and even call
> those in your city, and ask them to sign at
> http://lsp.persianblog.com/
> Feel free to forward this e-mail if you think it may
> help.
> Now let me explain for you why I ask you to sign it:
> The text of petition itself is not informative so let
> me explain why the case of Hojat and Arsh is
> important:
>
> 1)Our friends, Hojat and Arash, have not been arrested
> in street clashes, neither by call to the court.
> They've been almost kidnaped. It's not known even
> where are they now, and who is keeping them
>
> 2) You may think they were very proactive and so
> called BARANDAAZ: But the reality is exactly oppoiste.
> The only University which was calm in the last clashes
> was Sharif Univ. partly because of its nature, and
> partly due to these guys, who are very mild in
> comparison with the other activist in the other Univ,
> (you gotta know Arash to realize how mild and calm is
> this guy).
>
> 3) I'm almost sure that the reasons for their arrest
> are:
> a) they were part of a group who organized students
> to go to the Majlis, and talk with representatives
> about prior arrested students, and disputed subjects
> b) they were among those 10-15 Univ who sent the
> letter to Kofi Anaan, explaining the violation of
> human right in the case of Iranian students
>
> So as you can see, despit most of the other activists,
> they were following the most civilized methods, to
> protect their fellow students' human rights.
>
> 4) You may think how our petition can help them (and
> some may say, it may even hurt them) ?
> You know, when they arrest somebody, esp in this
> ambigious manner, they start making you undergo
> physical and phsycological presures. And the less
> people know you and support you outside, the more
> harsher situation you will have. (Since they have to
> send you to normal jail after a while and then you
> will explain what happened to you, so the more people
> know you and support you, the higher is it cost to
> harsh you during interrogation for them)
>
> 5) In the all other Univ, students are protesting
> against the arrest of their fellows from their Univ,
> but since Sharif's semester is over and nobody is
> around, LITERALLY, nobody voice against Hojat and
> Arash's arrest. So as their fellows in the North
> America, we shoud support them
> YOU SUPPOSE I (------) WAS ARRESTED, WOULDN'T
> YOU TAKE 1 MIN TO SIGN THE PETITION? AND TO ASK YOUR
> OTHER FRIENDS WHO DON'T KNOW ----- TO SIGN
> IT? So please take few minutes of your time, and help
> Hojat and Arash who after God, have few like you to
> help them during these harsh nights.
>
> Fi Amaanellaah
>
>
> PS. Feel free to forward this e-mail to your other
> friends from Sharif in North America
>
