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| Families of Iran vote detainees call for release |
| 2009-10-29 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Dozens of relatives of prominent reformers and other people detained after Iran's disputed election gathered outside the prosecutor's office in Tehran on Wednesday to call for their release, a witness said. Family members, including wives of people arrested after the June vote, held pictures of detainees, among them former deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh and former government spokesman Abdullah Ramezanzadeh, the witness said. The gathering was peaceful and there was no sign of police, the witness said. The relatives did not chant slogans, but called for the detainees to be freed in writing on placards. "The political court should be closed down," one placard said. "Where is the judiciary's independence?" asked another. |
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