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Iranian authorities have arrested student leader Ali Azizi, who is a senior member of the main Islamic students’ association, his mother told the ISNA news agency on Tuesday.

“Agents came to our house on Sunday and arrested my son,” she said. “I have had no news of my son since his arrest”. No reason was given for the arrest of Azizi, who belongs to the Unity Consolidation Bureau. Dozens of Iranian students held a new protest on Sunday calling for the release of three detained colleagues and shouting slogans against officials, ISNA reported.

The demonstration at the management faculty of Tehran University was the third since the three students from Amir Kabir University were given jail sentences of up to three years last month. The three were jailed on charges of printing anti-Islamic images in four student newspapers, accusations they vehemently deny. The ISNA report said the latest protest was also aimed at the arrest of another three colleagues at a similar demonstration the previous week at Alameh Tabatabai University in the capital. The demonstrations come after students held a rare protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he gave a speech at Tehran University last month, likening him to the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Source: AFP