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Wed 08 Aug 2009Paying a high price for returning to live in Iran
ON THE night of July 9th, Iranian security forces entered the Tehran home of our friend Dr Kian Tajbakhsh, a highly regarded social scientist, and took him away. His wife Bahar and baby daughter Hasti have not seen him since then, and they have not yet been told where he is being held. Nor has he had any access to legal counsel, writes CHANDANA MATHURand DERMOT DIX
On August 1st, he was among the numerous political prisoners dragged out for a staged mass trial, where he was accused of collaborating with outside governments to orchestrate the post-election protests that have rocked Iran.
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