Three foreign journalists reported detained in Iran

TEHRAN -- Iranian officials arrested a Japanese and two Canadian reporters during anti-government demonstrations this week and charged them with "unauthorized reporting," the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Friday.

It did not identify the reporters or their news organizations.

The three reporters join two others whose agencies said they were arrested during Wednesday's protests on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy siege here. Agence France-Presse said its local reporter Farhad Pouladi was detained, and the International Federation of Journalists said a Danish journalist, Niels Krogsgaard, was arrested in connection with the demonstration.

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