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Blogger jailed for insulting leaders dies in Iran's Evin prison
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Publisher:  Committee to Protect Journalists
Date Written:  19/03/09
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter

The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prison‎.

Abstract:  New York, March 19, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prison‎.

Omidreza Mir Sayafi's lawyer, Muhammad Ali Dadkhan, told the UK's Times Online that prison officials told him that his client had committed suicide. Dadkhan‎ said that before his death, Sayafi ‎had expressed concerns about his health, "‎but the doctors there didn't take this seriously a...
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