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Ayatollah Khamenei frees Iran blogger Nov 20th 2014, 17:15, by Reuters in Dubai Iran leader releases Hossein Derakhshan, suspected of spying for Israel and given prison term of 19 years for 'insulting Islam' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, on Thursday pardoned the blogger Hossein Derakhshan after his six years in prison for spreading propaganda, insulting Islam and cooperating with hostile countries, Iranian media reported. Iranian bloggers credit Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who lived in Tehran before moving to Toronto in 2000, with launching a blogging revolution in the Islamic republic by publishing instructions on the subject in Farsi. No reason was given for his release. Continue reading...

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