Iran Jails Two Pollsters
By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Sun Feb 02, 2003 at 11:02:27 PM EST
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Posted on Sun Feb 02, 2003 at 11:02:27 PM EST
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A court in Iran has sentenced two pollsters to prison for conducting an opinion poll on U.S.-Iranian relations.
Abbas Abdi, a prominent reformist politician, was sentenced to seven years and his colleague, Hussein-Ali Qazian, received an eight-year prison term, the reports said.... The two men, along with several others from a similar institute, were arrested and tried after the release of the survey in September that indicated three-quarters of Iranians favored resuming ties with the United States.
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