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Friday, October 19, 2007



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Mr. Mohammad Javad Akbarin,a reformist journalist and a moderate clergy is banned to leave Iran!
On Wednesday Oct. 17 at around 5:00 pm, Mr. Akbarin was on his way to Lebanon to continue his education in Doctorate degree when He was stopped in Mehrabad Airport. In a call to his family , Mr. Akbarin told that by an order from "clergy court" he has been arrested.
Mr. Akbarin was later released but remained in a list of banned to leave the country.
The agents who arrested him had the ID of "president office" and they showed the order to Mr. Akbarin.The agents also told him that; they didn't have his home address and thats why they sent the order the Airport.

Background:
Mr. Mohammad Javad Akbarin is a young reformist clergy and journalist from the province of Mazanderan. He has supported reform from the very begining and wrote critical articles by his real name in reformist newspapers.He openly supported the Islamic idea of Bazargan over Khomeini's( Liberal-secular Islam over conservative Islam ).Mr. Bazargan once told to Khomeini's son: " The difference between me and your father was that : I wanted Islam for Iran, but your father wanted Iran for Islam."
Mr. Akbarin was always under pressure from the right conservative islamists (Motalafeh Islami) and he had always supported the human rights of individuals like Ganji and Hashem Aghajeri and .......


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