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SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED AT RELEASE FROM PRISON OF IRANIAN JOURNALIST AKBAR GANJI
20 March 2006
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| 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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