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According to[fa] the Iranian media President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian jailed blogger and Roxana Saberi, an American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to 8 years of prison, must have right of defense.

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  • Pingback: AFP: Ahmadinejad urges ‘justice’ for jailed US reporter | cyrusfarivar.com

    [...] [via Antony Loewenstein and Hamid Tehrani] [...]

    # 2009-04-19 at 13:31 pm

  • Pingback: Ahmadinejad on Derakhshan : Committee to Protect Bloggers

    [...] Hamid sent us a link regarding the imprisoned blogger Hossein Derakhshan, or Hoder. Hoder is a Canadian-Iranian blogger who went from being a critic of the Iranian regime to a partisan of it. That didn’t help him however, when he was arrested on returning to Iran. Hoder had visited Israel and was allegedly arrested for spying for that country. According to[fa] the Iranian media President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian jailed blogger and Roxana Saberi, an American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to 8 years of prison, must have right of defense. [...]

    # 2009-04-19 at 14:41 pm

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