Iran security forces detain student activists: report

          
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          Iran security forces detain student
          activists: report
          Fri Oct 2, 2009 2:44pm EDT
          TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces arrested at least 15 student
          activists Friday after a meeting of key members of a pro-reform student
          movement in Tehran, a reformist website reported.
          The report on Mowjcamp.com said the police had not told the detained
          students' families where they were being held.
          It was not immediately possible to confirm the report, which came days
          after two large student gatherings in Tehran to protest against President
          Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
          At least 1,000 people gathered at Tehran's Sharif University Tuesday after
          learning of a visit there by Science Minister Kamran Daneshjou, whose
          ministry is in charge of higher education.
          Daneshjou ran the Interior Ministry's election headquarters during the
          disputed presidential poll in June. He was appointed science minister last
          month in Ahmadinejad's new government.
          Monday almost the same number of students held a rally at Tehran
          University in a show of support for opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi.
          Mowjcamp. now is a pro-Mousavi website.
          The election, which was followed by huge opposition protests, plunged Iran
          into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The
          moderate opposition says it was rigged to secure Ahmadinejad's
          re-election. Officials deny it.
          Thousands of people, including senior reformist figures, were detained after
          the election. Most have since been freed, but more than 100 remain in jail
          accused of orchestrating post-election street unrest.
          The opposition says more than 70 people died during the unrest, more than
          double the official estimate.
          (Writing by Reza Derakhshi; editing by Tim Pearce)
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