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| Thirty 'mournful mothers' arrested |
| 2010-01-10 |
| IRANIAN security forces have reportedly arrested 30 "mournful mothers'' protesting in a Tehran park over the death or disappearance of their children. The women were rounded up on Saturday in Laleh Park, according to opposition website Kaleme.org. "Around 4pm we were in Laleh park and there were more than 100 police... who were not allowing the mothers to sit on the benches or gather in groups,'' an unidentified witness told the website. "There were around 70 mothers in the park and the security chased them out. A number of them escaped but around 30 were arrested and were forcefully taken into police vans.'' The women were believed to have then been driven to a police station. They are part of a group of mothers whose children have gone either missing or were killed following the contested re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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