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Published: October 15, 2007, 23:03
Tehran: Iranian authorities imprisoned one of their nation's most prominent human rights activists on Sunday after he appeared at a court appointment, said his lawyer.
Emad Al Deen Baghi, a writer who has campaigned vigorously against the death penalty in Iran, was taken into custody during a hearing in Tehran's Revolutionary Court, which tries those charged with political crimes.
Baghi's relatives said the court imposed a previously suspended one-year sentence on state security charges and denied bail. His lawyers said they were barred from the courtroom.
"We were not allowed today to be present during the investigation," said Saleh Nikbakht, one of Baghi's two attorneys.
Nikbakht said Baghi had told him he had been accused of revealing classified information. It was not immediately clear where the dissident was being held.
Authorities were angered recently by his outspoken opposition to the death penalty for Iranians of Arab descent convicted for taking part in a series of bombings in the province of Khuzestan. Baghi opposes capital punishment in all cases.
Baghi was born to a religious family in Karbala in 1962. A former Islamic seminary student, he supported Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. He turned against the regime in the 1980s, writing books critical of the clerical establishment.
His wife, activist and writer Fatemeh Kamali, tried to post bail for her husband on Sunday, but the bid was refused by the court, Nikbakht said.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
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