Students at Fairfield's Sacred Heart University have organized a freedom concert that will bring together musicians, prominent human rights activists and others to express solidarity with Iranian students, minorities, intellectuals and laborers.

Sanjari is one of Iran's most recognized and well-known student activists and bloggers. The now 25 year-old was first imprisoned at the age of 17 for his activism, and has spent substantial time in and out of prison under severe torture, including 111 days in solitary confinement in Iran's notorious Evin prison. A member of the Iranian Democratic Front, he fled Iran in 2007, and with the assistance of Amnesty International and other entities he was successful in receiving political asylum in Europe. Since obtaining asylum, Mr. Sanjari has continued his steadfast activism on behalf

of students, prisoners, and other victims of human rights violations in Iran. The Freedom Concert will feature live musical performances by Honest Abe and The Emancipators, Charlie "CHAZ" Cybulski, Humble Roots, ICE Brothers, Pete Greco & Buck Mulligan, Jeff Leblanc and Joe Beleznay.

Tickets are $3 for general admission. To buy tickets, call the Edgerton Center box office at 371-7908 or visit www.edgertoncenter.org.