Did we forget Emad Baghi?
Emad has been in prison for almost a year now.Iran Watch Canada has reported about his arrest at the time.
Emad Baghi is the president of the "Association in Defence of the rights of Prisoners " in Iran and a human rights advocate. He is also an investigative journalist and writer.
Last Sunday a meeting was held at the home of Baghi by the "committee on arbiterary arrest in Iran" - . This meeting was organized by the commission on human rights of the "Mosharekat Party" .
Isa Saharkhiz an Iranian journalist writes about Baghi:
"News that are coming from Evin prison and from the ward number 209 where they have kept Baghi in there again isn't good. The news that are brought by the childeren and wife of this brave journalist after their last meeting with him is regrettable and worrisome."
http://asre-nou.net/1387/mordad/31/m-baghi.html
Emadeddin Baghi is a "prominent Iranian rights activist and leading prisoners' rights advocate," and a "renowned Iranian investigative journalist." He is the founder and head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and the Society of Right to Life Guardians in Iran and the author of twenty books, six of which have been banned. [1] In 2000, Baghi was imprisoned in connection with his expose writings on the Chain murders of Iran, and served two years. [2] He was imprisoned again in late 2007 for another year on ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emadeddin_Baghi
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/10/16/iran17105.htm
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