You may get a couple on a gap year before university, an architect taking a career break, someone on a three month charity trip, a student who is learning the language and has been staying in the hostel for a month the possibilities are endless.

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The verdict was considered an outrage, given the unambiguous evidence that police and plainclothes vigilantes had broken into the students' hostel as they slept, beating them and throwing at least one student out of a window.

ECONOMIST: Iran