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SG/SM/10384

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED AT RELEASE FROM PRISON OF IRANIAN JOURNALIST AKBAR GANJI

20 March 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10384
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED AT RELEASE FROM PRISON OF IRANIAN JOURNALIST AKBAR GANJI


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is pleased that Akbar Ganji, an Iranian journalist, is now free after having served a six-year prison sentence.  The Secretary-General wishes him good health.  In August 2005, the Secretary-General appealed to the Iranian authorities to grant Mr. Ganji’s release on humanitarian grounds, following a prolonged hunger strike.


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