Editing 1999 Iranian student protests (section)

=== Aftermath ===
A crackdown on reformists and reform policies followed the riots.
* A "long-negotiated compromise" that would have weakened the [[Council of Guardians]] to screening candidates for parliament and president was vetoed, giving the guardians "absolute vetting power".
* A "thought crime" law was passed prohibiting "any violent or peaceful act by a person or group against the regime" including speech, and punishing such criticism with stiff sentences.
* Another law prohibited "any contact or exchange of information, interviews or collusion with foreign embassies, organization, parties or media at whatever level which could be judged harmful to Iran's independence, national unity or the interests of the Islamic republic."<ref>Wright, Robin, ''The Last Great Revolution'', c2000, pp. 268–72</ref>

As of 31 July 2006, several students involved in the demonstration such as Manouchehr Mohammadi, [[Ahmad Batebi]], Farokh Shafiei, Hassan Zarezadeh Ardeshir, were still in jail. Of those students, [[Akbar Mohammadi (student)|Akbar Mohammadi]] died during a hunger strike while protesting against his prison sentence;<ref>{{cite news|title=Outcry after dissident dies in Iranian jail|newspaper=The Guardian|author=Robert Tait|date=1 August 2006|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/01/iran.roberttait|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]] called his death "suspicious" and demanded an investigation.<ref>[http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/03/iran13895.htm "Iran: Imprisoned Dissident Dies in Custody; Investigate Mohammadi's Suspicious Death"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112121117/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/03/iran13895.htm |date=2008-11-12 }} Human Rights Watch, 3 August 2006</ref> [[Heshmat Tabarzadi]], viewed by the Iranian government as one of the leaders of the protests, was arrested and spent nine years in [[Evin Prison]], including two in solitary confinement.<ref name="wsj">{{cite news|title=Dissident Iran Rises|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=30 December 2009|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703510304574626453406091222|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref> According to the [[Middle East Eye]], a lecturer in the U.K argued that the impact of the 1999 student protests became apparent 10 years later during the 2009 Green Movement. <ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/irans-1999-student-protests-hot-summer-shook-tehran |title= Iran's 1999 student protests: The hot summer that shook Tehran. }}</ref>