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Iran: Top poetess support hunger strike

Written byFred Petrossian
Posted 8 July 2006 6:28 GMT

In Trebon we read that Mrs. Simin Behbahani, the most famous poetess in Iran, supported Akbar Ganji's, dissident journalist, hunger strike call to attract world-wide attention on Iranian political prisoners. According to the blog, Behbahani said we should do what we can to see all these innocent political prisoners out of jail (Persian).

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