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Iran: Buying book can become dangerous

Written byFred Petrossian
Read this post in عربي, Español, Ελληνικά
Posted 20 May 2012 10:30 GMT

Several bloggers published a photo where a woman pushed to the ground by the security forces in a book fair. Gargagarga writes it happens in book fair and everybody is watching. It seems people get used to seeing such scenes.

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