Iran: Ahmadinejad says jailed blogger must have right of defense

Posted 19 April 2009 10:45 GMT

Countries	Iran
Topics	Governance, Human Rights, Protest, Politics, Digital Activism

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

# 19 April 2009, 13:31 pm
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[...] 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. [...]

# 19 April 2009, 14:41 pm

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