Moeen School's high school closed due to sexual assault
The first year of a high school in Moein School in West Tehran's District 2 lost its license to operate due to the sexual assault of at least 30 students, all around 14 years old. The head of education in District 2 of Tehran also resigned.
Alireza Rahpima, head of the Information and Public Relations Department of Tehran's Education Department, announced that the license to operate the first year of high school at the West Tehran Non-Governmental Educational Complex (Mo'in) has been revoked.
The media coverage of the sexual assault of students at Moeen School also prompted a reaction from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic. Khamenei called the assault on students a crime and ordered the judiciary to “implement divine punishments against the accused as soon as possible” after the trial.
In the case of sexual assault against certain students, the school principal is accused of providing cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and "pornographic films" to students and forcing them to have sex and sexually harassing them.
The head of the Tehran Education Information and Public Relations Department has said that the Education Department is the plaintiff and is awaiting a judge's ruling.
Resignation of the Director of Education Region 2
Regarding the fate of students from a specific school, the march has also said that these students can register in any school they wish and there will be no disruption to their education.
The head of the Information and Public Relations Department of Tehran Education has also announced that Nasser Kohistani, the director of Tehran's Education Region 2, has resigned and, by order of Abbas Ali Bagheri, the director general of Tehran's Education, Houshang Mirshafiei has been appointed as the head of this department.
The head of the Tehran City Education Information and Public Relations Department did not mention the mental and psychological problems of the students or their parents in his remarks.
Source: DW
