Amnesty International (AI), in a statement, asked for immediate release of detained students in Iran. The statement of this organization has expressed concern about the situation of the detained student.

AI statement reads: between 20 to 30 students have been detained following demonstrations and gatherings on the occasion of Dec. 7, the Iranian Students Day, without explaining the charge, in Tehran and other cities. Most of the detainees are kept in Tehran, in Evin Prison’s wards 209 and 240, and some others are kept in a governmental intelligence unit named “bureau of follow up”

In its statement, Amnesty International has referred to the protesting gatherings by the detained students’ families in front of Evin Prison and in front of the Iranian regime’s Parliament on December12.