"Members of the Association for the Protection of Nature in Lavardin were arrested by a security agency. The allegations against them are unknown," Tabnak reported late yesterday.
It said they were arrested in Bandar Lengheh in the southern Hormuzgan province on the Gulf coast.
It follows the arrest of eight members of the Persian Heritage Wildlife Association, Iran's most prominent nature NGO, in January on espionage charges.
Its founder Kavous Seyed Emami, 63, died in prison around two weeks later.
The deputy head of the government's Environment Protection Organisation, renowned water campaigner Kaveh Madani, was also detained briefly this month.
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