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Iran: Jailed blogger's mother called to release his son

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Human Rights

Several news sites reported [1] that Hossein Derakhshan's mother has called on the head of Iran's judiciary to release her son for the Iranian New Year, or Norouz, marked on March 21. Hossein, has been in your prison for more than 500 days. And we have been waiting for him outside the prison every day,” she writes. Derakhshan [2] is one of Iranian jailed bloggers.