Niusha Boghrati
Worldpress.org correspondent
October 16, 2007
Prominent Iranian rights activist and leading prisoners' rights advocate Emadeddin Baghi was detained and imprisoned on Sunday, Oct. 15. Baghi, head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and a renowned Iranian investigative journalist, had previously served a three-year term in prison for his writings in the reformist press. He was summoned to Tehran's revolutionary court on the charges of "propaganda against the Islamic Republic" and "divulging state secret information."
According to his lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, Baghi was then detained on a previously suspended charge of "acting against national security" due to his writings on the chain of murders involving Iranian intellectuals. A sentence of one year in prison, which has now been applied to the Iranian activist, had been dropped after Baghi spent three years in prison in 2002.
Baghi, along with Akbar Ganji, was among the most prominent journalists who began to shed light on the origin and true sources of the chain of murders during the 1990's. The killing of intellectuals in Iran, which involved the stabbing deaths of some prominent writers and political activists, occurred before the reformists took power in Tehran.
link: Worldpress
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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