TEHRAN -- Nine students jailed in Tehran in connection with the June and July unrest were freed from prison here on Thursday evening.

The release came two days after the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on judiciary officials to show leniency towards jailed students.

Seven of the students, talking to reporters after their release, said they had just wanted to make criticism but they embarked on some excessiveness.

The students appreciated the Supreme Leader for his clemency and said they have no connection with the opposition groups outside the country, IRNA reported.

An MP from Qazvin and a member of the committee in charge of investigating the case of detained students Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard told reporters that other students who are still in jail will be freed on bail in a near future.

Detained students in Evin prison were all in very good conditions and have confessed to their mistakes, Aboutorabi-Fard said, adding the students are serious to compensate for their past mistakes in the future.

"We came to the conclusion that all students believe in the system of the Islamic Republic and recognize the defense of the system and its values as their duty," he said.

"They have denied connection with trouble-makers and rioters and declared their loyalty to the Islamic Republic," he added. Mohsen Safaei Farahani, an MP from Tehran and another member of the committee also said, "26 students are still in jail but will be freed in the future based on the remarks made by the prosecutor and head of the related court."

A student association official also said Thursday that all the jailed students in the western city of Hamedan have been set free.

Nine students from Bu Ali Sina and Hamedan Medical universities had been arrested in total, of whom six people had already been released and the rest were freed Thursday, secretary of the Islamic Students Association, Fakhroddin Heydarian said.

"Hamid Rahgozar, Reza Kakavandi and Morteza Hossein-Zadeh were among the detained students in recent scuffles in the Bu Ali Sina University, who were released from jail today after posting 200 million rials bail each," he added.

Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday ordered Judiciary officials to exercise Islamic clemency toward the students under arrest.

The order was in response to an appeal from two representatives of the Supreme Leader in universities.

They wrote that the Islamic Revolution was a social movement on the religious beliefs and that the Muslim nation stood up against the regime of tyranny under leadership of the late Imam Khomeini.

"The Islamic Revolution achieved victory with the strategic slogan of independence, freedom and the Islamic Republic instead of the slogan being put forward by some other groups which was 'bread, housing and freedom'," they said.

On Wednesday, Tehran prosecutor's office ordered nine students to be released, it said in a statement Wednesday.

In the initial phase, the public prosecutor had issued the order for the release of nine students, which was approved by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the statement.

The students were arrested in several days of rioting following a peaceful gathering of students to protest the perceived privatization of state universities, which officials rejected.