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Iran: Two Poets Arrested

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Literature, Politics

Poets Mehdi Mousavi and Fatemeh Ekhtesari disappeared in Iran. News reported that the two have been detained since early December. More than two hundred people signed an online petition [1] and called on the UN to take action about the situation of cultural activists particularly the case of these two young poets in Iran.