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Blogs Cliopatria REPRESSION

Jun 28, 2009

REPRESSION

by Cliopatria

MORE than 2000 people are still in detention and hundreds more are missing in Iran since a government crackdown on protests over a disputed presidential election, the FIDH human rights group says.