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DJMN: 109 Arrested At Iran Protests: Tehran Police Chief
TEHRAN (AFP)--Police arrested 109 people during opposition protests on the sidelines of an official demonstration marking three decades since the seizure of the U.S. Embassy, Tehran's police chief said Saturday.
"A hundred and nine people were arrested. Forty-seven were released on bail and 62 are in prison and their files are with the judicial authorities," General Azizollah Rajabzadeh was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
Among those jailed are "43 men and 19 women," he said.
Police on Wednesday fired tear gas in central Tehran to disperse groups of protesting opposition supporters as thousands of Iranians staged the annual anti-U.S. rally outside the former U.S. Embassy building to mark the 30th anniversary of its storming by Islamist students.
The opposition since June has been staging protests in the capital against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a presidential vote they claim was massively rigged.
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November 07, 2009 04:58 ET (09:58 GMT)
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