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TWT Reporter Released in Iran

By Matt Dornic on July 6, 2009 12:04 PM

HuffPo reports that TWT reporter Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden; the journalist arrested two weeks ago in Iran, has been released.

Fowden had been accused of “illegal activities” during the protests that followed the Iranian presidential election. He was believed to be the only journalist without Iranian citizenship among the hundreds of journalists, bloggers and activists detained.

See HuffPo for more details.

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