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Iran: Ahmadinejad says jailed blogger must have right of defense

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Digital Activism, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Protest

According to [1][fa] the Iranian media President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Hossein Derakhshan [2], an Iranian jailed blogger and Roxana Saberi [3], an American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to 8 years of prison, must have right of defense.