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| Lawyer of murdered Iranian dissident couple arrested |
| 2002-08-08 |
| The family lawyer of Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar, a dissident Iranian couple murdered in 1998 by rogue intelligence ministry agents, has been arrested. Nasser Zarafshan had been sentenced to five years in prison and 50 lashes on charges of revealing state secrets and on weapons and alcohol offences, after being prosecuted by a military court earlier this year. Yasss... We must protect the dirty little secrets of dirty little dictatorships, especially those run by dirty little clerics... Secular opposition leader Dariush Foruhar and his wife were stabbed to death in their Tehran apartment in 1998. Three other Iranian writers who were campaigning for freedom of expression were likewise murdered in 1998. The intelligence ministry admitted that some rogue agents were implicated in the murders, but said no top officials were aware of the plot. No, no. Certainly not. Of course not. Rogue agents, definitely. Probably influenced by foreigners... According to the official version of events, the alleged mastermind of the crimes, a senior intelligence official named Saiid Emami, committed suicide in prison in June 1999 by drinking a bottle of hair remover. Rogue agents often do things like that. Sometimes they go for Drano, too. And sometimes they commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head. With a rifle. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |