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Independent UN expert urges Iran to release remaining political prisoners

Calling the recent prisoner release in Iran "a step in the right direction," an independent United Nations human rights expert today urged the Government to let go hundreds of others detained for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly.

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