Iran's top leader pardons controversial blogger
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting the country's top leader has pardoned a controversial Iranian-Canadian blogger. The Thursday report says authorities informed Hossein Derakhshan about his amnesty late Wednesday when he returned to Tehran's Evin prison from one of his occasional leaves. The pardon by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came more than 11 years before the end of Derakhshan's prison term. Derakhshan, founder of one of the first Farsi-language blogs, was first detained in 2008. In 2010, a ...
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