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ILNA also said that lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah was freed on Sunday after posting bail of five billion rials (500,000 dollars).
Dadkhah, who is a founder of the Human Rights Defenders Centre headed by Ebadi, was arrested in early July amid a crackdown on critics and opposition supporters.
Iran has jailed scores of reformists, journalists and rights activists in the wake of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed June 12 re-election.
The opposition charged that the poll was massively rigged, sparking week-long street protests during which thousands were arrested and dozens of other people killed.
Defeated reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi has also charged that several protesters were raped in custody, but Iranian judiciary on Saturday rejected the allegations as baseless and called for action against Karroubi.
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Dadkhah, who is a founder of the Human Rights Defenders Centre headed by Ebadi, was arrested in early July amid a crackdown on critics and opposition supporters.
Iran has jailed scores of reformists, journalists and rights activists in the wake of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed June 12 re-election.
The opposition charged that the poll was massively rigged, sparking week-long street protests during which thousands were arrested and dozens of other people killed.
Defeated reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi has also charged that several protesters were raped in custody, but Iranian judiciary on Saturday rejected the allegations as baseless and called for action against Karroubi.
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