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"Holocaust naysayer ousted in New York"
JPost.com ^ | Jan. 16, 2007 | MICHAL LANDO
Posted on 01/15/2007 3:17:46 PM PST by mdittmar
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Iran Wants Germany to Swap Assassin for Jailed Tourist
spiegel online ^ | January 15, 2007
Posted on 01/15/2007 3:25:03 PM PST by nuconvert
Iran Wants Germany to Swap Assassin for Jailed Tourist
January 15, 2007
A German tourist who has been held in an Iranian jail for over a year because his fishing boat accidentally entered a restricted zone in the Persian Gulf has become a bargaining chip of international dipomacy. Iran wants to swap him for a convicted assassin serving a life sentence in a German jail.
Iran wants Germany to release a convicted killer in return for a German tourist who was jailed after his boat strayed into Iranian territorial waters by mistake.
Iranian officials have responded to German appeals for his release by linking the case to that of Kazem Darabi, who is serving a life sentence in Germany for the 1992 assassination of four Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders in a Berlin restaurant. The court that convicted Darabi in 1997 said the orders for the killings came from the highest state levels in Tehran.
The tourist, Donald Klein, 53, from Lambsheim in southwestern Germany, was jailed for 18 months by an Iranian court for illegally crossing a border. The sculptor, a passionate angler, had been on vacation in Dubai in November 2005 and had hired a boat to catch swordfish and parrot fish in the Persian Gulf.
His French skipper steered the vessel into the Strait of Ormuz and close to the island of Abu Mussa, a restricted zone. They were arrested, interrogated and sentenced within weeks.
Klein's wife Karin has made numerous appeals for clemency to Iranian officials. When his mother died, she sent them a copy of the death certificate, hoping the mullahs would show compassion. There was no response.
Klein has lost a lot of weight -- 32 kilograms -- while in jail, where he has shared a cell with 13 other inmates,
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and from NY to the middle East...Adding to post no. 837...
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SP142507
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1425
January 16, 2007 No.1425
"Criticism of Tehran Holocaust Denial Conference in Arab and Iranian Media"