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RIGHTS-IRAN: FREED RIGHTS ACTIVIST VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT.

Interpress Service | November 2, 2006 | Copyright

by Kimia Sanati

TEHRAN, Nov. 2, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The release of Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, one of Iran's more famous prisoners of conscience in recent years, has strengthened his ardor for battle.

But then Khoini, a former reformist member of parliament (MP) who fought for improvement in jail conditions, was prepared for what lay ahead when he was arrested on June 12 -- at a demonstration organised by women's rights groups demanding changes in the country's laws, considered repressive and unfair to females.

"What I have said or the stances I have taken…

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