Mostafa Evezpoor and his 14-year-old brother Mohammad Reza Evezpoor, both
members of the Iranian Azerbaijani minority, were reportedly arrested on 21
September, two days before the start of the new academic year in Iran on 1 Mehr
(23 September). Iranian Azerbaijani activists had called for a boycott of the
first day of the school year and for demonstrations to be held calling for the
right for Iranian Azerbaijani children to be