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Sunday December 17 9:36 AM ET
Leading
Iranian Dissident Arrested
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A leading Iranian dissident was arrested and jailed Sunday on charges of insulting Iran's supreme leader, a close associate said.
Ezatollah Sahabi, a member of the dissident Freedom Movement, which opposes Iran's clerical rule, was interrogated and arrested on the orders of the hard-line Tehran Revolutionary Court, said Reza
Alijani, an editor of the now banned Iran-e-Farda magazine.
Sahabi was the director of Iran-e-Farda, one of 30 publications that have been banned since a media crackdown launched by the hard-line judiciary in April. All but one of the publications were pro-reform.
``Sahabi was taken to jail after a brief interrogation on charges of insulting the supreme leader during an address to students earlier this month,'' Alijani told The Associated Press.
More than two dozen reformist journalists and political activists have been arrested since April on vague charges of insulting Islamic sanctities and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei.
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