Iranian student unrest sentences announced

Press reports in Iran say a revolutionary court has given jail sentences ranging from six months to one year to a group of people described as trouble-makers for their part in the serious student unrest in Tehran in July 1999.

The daily Resalat newspaper quoted the head of the Revolutionary Court, Ali Mobasheri, as saying the sentences for 15 others would be issued in the coming days.

On the second anniversary of the unrest, Iran's largest student group has called for a quiet campus gathering to mark the event.

The authorities have banned all street demonstrations. The trouble was set off when police and hardline vigilantes entered Teheran University in an attempt to stop students gathering to protest against the closure of a popular reformist newspaper.

Several days of serious rioting in the capital and elsewhere followed the incident.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service