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Iran: “Forced Blogging from Prison”

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 @ 07:42 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protest, Politics

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Iran: Abtahi semble contraint à bloguer depuis la prison

Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a leading reformist blogger and former vice president, started [fa] to update his blog in prison. He says that the interrogation continues but he has very friendly relation with interrogator and protesters in prison know that there was no significant fraud in Iran's presidential election.

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[...] Credit: The New YorkerHamid Tehrani over at Global Voices reports today that Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the former vice president and well known blogger whose gaunt appearance [...]

# 2009-08-27 at 14:15 pm
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[...] From Global Voices Online: Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a leading reformist blogger and former vice president, started to update his blog in prison. He says that the interrogation continues but he has very friendly relation with interrogator and protesters in prison know that there was no significant fraud in Iran’s presidential election. [...]

# 2009-08-27 at 14:52 pm

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