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Group Condemns Interrogation Of Iranian Journalists


(RFE/RL) November 21, 2006 -- Iran's Journalists Association has condemned the interrogation of some 20 Iranian journalists who returned to Tehran after attending a two-week training course in the Netherlands.


The group says the journalists were interrogated for several hours in the early hours of November 20 and submitted to "unsuitable " behavior by security officers at Tehran's Mehrabad airport.


The journalists were reportedly questioned about the aim of their trip, its financing, and the people they met during their stay.


(ILNA)

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