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Jailed Iranian Labour Leader Hospitalised
Th Peninsula/Reuters ^ | June 19, 2008

Posted on 06/18/2008 6:26:55 PM PDT by nuconvert

A dissident Iranian labour leader who is serving a five-year jail sentence has been hospitalised with a heart problem, a source close to him said yesterday. Mansoor Osanloo, leader of a union grouping bus drivers, was detained in July last year for "distributing statements against the system" and a judiciary official was in October quoted as saying he had been sentenced to jail.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: busdrivers; evinprison; freespeech; humanrights; iran; osanloo; union

1 posted on 06/18/2008 6:30:13 PM PDT by nuconvert
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This should be excerpted. Sorry.


2 posted on 06/18/2008 6:49:33 PM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: nuconvert

Yeah.. you can get eye problems in an Iranian prison. They bamboo shoots jammed under your eyelids sometimes arent sanitary.


3 posted on 06/18/2008 6:52:11 PM PDT by DainBramage
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