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Posted on 10/22/2007 11:41:56 PM PDT by freedom44
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 — Students at one of the most politically active universities in Tehran demonstrated Monday amid high security to protest jail terms for three student activists, an Iranian student news agency reported.
Students from different universities gathered at Amir Kabir University to protest sentences of up to three years issued last week for the activists, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban, the student news agency, ISNA, reported.
Authorities accused the three, all from Amir Kabir University, of publishing articles insulting to Islam in student publications. The students denied the charges and said their publications had been forged to frame them.
Mr. Mansouri’s mother said in August that the three men were tortured at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Pictures distributed by ISNA showed a few hundred students, whose faces were digitally blurred to maintain their anonymity, holding photographs of the jailed students. The news agency also reported that the protesters walked around the campus chanting slogans and giving speeches in front of its central building.
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