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| | Iran: Trial of Political Activists Begins (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, January 8, 2002) |
 | | For most of their detention they were held in solitary confinement. |
 | | Nine of the detainees—Mohammad Maleki, Mohammad Hossein Rafiei, Alireza Rajaei, Reza Alijani, Mohmmad Basteh Negar, Mahmoud Omrani, Massoud Pedram, Morteza Kazemian and Mohmmad Mohammadi Ardehali—were released on bail during the summer months of 2001. |
 | | The other five—Taghi Rahmani, Habibollah Payman, Reza Raeis-Toussi, Saeid Madani and Hoda Saber—remain incarcerated in Prison 59. |
| www.hrw.org /press/2002/01/irantrial0107.htm (846 words) |
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