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Rafsanjani Calls for Release of Prisoners

Rafsanjani Calls for Release of Prisoners

In mid-July, 2009, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful clerics, calls on the Iranian government to release those people arrested during protests following the disputed election in which President Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. "There is no need to have these numbers of people in prison," he says.

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Mar 10, 2009