Iran students protest over jail sentences

Iranian students on Monday staged a protest against the jailing of three colleagues, shouting slogans against officials and proclaiming the prisoners' innocence, Iranian news agencies reported, according to the AFP.

"Three students from Tehran's Amir Kabir University were last week given jail sentences of up to three years on charges of anti-Islamic images in four student newspapers.

... Photos taken by mobile phones at the scene showed students holding pictures of the jailed students and banners held by protesters had slogans against some of the country's officials, the ISNA report said.

ISNA had blurred the faces of the students at the gathering in their pictures for their security."

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