Iran takes more opposition demonstrators into custody

Kazakhstan News.Net
Saturday 7th November, 2009

More than 100 people have been detained after Wednesday's protests in Tehran.

According to witnesses tear gas and batons were used on the demonstrators, who were out to protest the recent elections, which they have claimed were rigged to ensure the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Officials in the country have said some of the people have been charged with public order offences over their protest which coincided with an official rally to mark 30 years since the storming of the US embassy during the 1979 Islamic revolution.

62 are due to face trial while the others were released after questioning.

The arrested people were part of an opposition-organised demonstration, which was deemed illegal by the Iranian security forces.

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