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  • French Try to Stop Iranian Protestors

    06/19/2003 3:09:03 PM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 17 replies · 207+ views
    AP ^ | 6/19/03 | ELAINE GANLEY
    PARIS - Paris police rounded up nearly 100 members of an Iranian exile group Thursday to stop them from setting fire to themselves in protest of a French crackdown on their organization. Three people from the group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, doused themselves with flammable liquid and set themselves on fire in Europe on Thursday — two in Rome and one in Bern, Switzerland. That raised the group's number of self-immolations to seven, even as its leaders appealed for a halt to the practice. The Mujahedeen Khalq has been protesting in the streets of Paris and other European cities since French...
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    06/19/2003 7:06:52 AM PDT · by evets · 45 replies · 301+ views
    <p>Exile Mohammad Vakilifar runs down a Paris street yesterday after setting himself afire to protest the roundup by French authorities of Iranian dissidents opposed to the Islamic regime. He survived.</p>