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Wednesday, February 27, 2008



News in brief-
asre-nou.net
The appeal court , adopted new sentencing against Iranian writer Mr. Yaghub Yadali !
ISNA reported that, the lawyer of Mr. Yaghub Yadali the Iranian writer said ; The appeal court in the province of "Kohkiluyeh -Buyerahmad" has changed the earlier decision of nine months suspended sentences made by the primary court to one year imprisonment.
Mr. Saleh Nikbakht the lawyer of Mr. Yaghub Yadali in speaking with ISNA have said: His client must spent one year in prison for a book he has written and the book was given permission to publish by the Ministry of Culture and Guidance.
He said : I have recieved the sentencing by the appeal court but this court unfortunately and contrary to the legal procedure which banns the court to increase the sentencing has changed my clients nine months suspended sentencing to a year imprisonment.
Mr. Saleh Nikbakht added :
My client has written a book and in his book some of his characters speak in local dialect or he has chosen this particular place to make his story a reality ( to give realism to the story ), but he has been accued of insulting to the people of this particular place. He said : The characters in his clients novel doesn't have real external existance and he has just imaginary chosen that place and that particular dialect.
Mr. Nikbakht said : Sentencing a writer who did not named and insult anyone in his book doesn't coincide with regular laws and constitutional provisions.

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