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Please forgive me!

March 8, 2010 09:33
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http://www.ifex.org/iran/2010/03/05/newspapers_closed/

http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-condemns-closure-of-newspapers-in-ira...

"Journalists held by the intelligence ministry are being subjected to considerable pressure to publicly ask the Revolution's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, for forgiveness. The Islamic Republic's prosecutor-general, Golamhosien Mohssenie Ejehie, said last week that "repentance" was "one of the conditions" for the release of political prisoners."

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