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activity, contacts with spy networks, and having received money from
Western counterrevolutionaries" which majority of Iranians knew at the time to be a false accusation. A few months later a letter purportedly "written by Sirjani himself admitted to a range of crimes against the state, but even then everyone knew the confession was not written by him."
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as a heart attack, although his daughter, Sayeh
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Sirjani then initiated a letter-writing campaign, demanding that a second printing be released. Iran's
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, then told Sirjani through intermediaries to halt his writings and his protestations. Sirjani refused and "directly assailed the Islamic Republic in an open
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One of Saeed Emami's colleagues and one of the last persons arrested, met a known clergyman and Majlis deputy from Tehran a few months before his arrest and revealed how Saeed Emami had murdered Saeedi
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Saidi-Sirjani was arrested on 14 March 1994 (another source says 13 March 1993) and charged with openly criticizing the government, among other things. A spokesperson for the
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Iranian intellectuals, academics," who came together "as never before." Letters of protest were dispatched to various political and professional organizations in Europe and the United States. Organizations such as Amnesty
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who used satirical and allegorical stories to criticize the
Islamic Republic for what he saw as its "authoritarianism, religious hypocrisy, and obtrusive meddling in people's personal lives." His first open confrontation with the authorities came following the publication of a book of essays,
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