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Article: IRAN: IMPRISONED DISSIDENT DIES IN CUSTODY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 3, 2006
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The Iranian government should immediately allow an independent investigation into the suspicious death in prison of student activist Akbar Mohammadi, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said that if responsibility for Mohammadi's death in Tehran's Evin prison on July 30 lies with the prison or other state authorities, the relevant individuals should be identified and prosecuted.
Mohammadi, 38, is the second inmate to die in the notorious Evin prison in the past three years. In June 2003, Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, died while in custody there. Iranian authorities arrested her as she was photographing ...