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Iran:A tortured political leader

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Protest

Roozmaregiha writes that Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini [1], jailed political prisoner and former deputy in Iranian parliament, seized opportunity at his father's funeral where he had found a few minutes of freedom to say he has been under torture in prison.The blogger adds Mousavi is not an ordinary prisoner; he is the leader of a legal political party ( Tahkim Vahdat) and a former deputy in parliament [2] [Fa].