Mojtaba to Take University Exams in Handcuffs

Via RSF we have learned that Mojtaba Saminejad, the jailed Iranian blogger, will be allowed to take his university examinations but will be guarded and wearing handcuffs.


Blogger Mojtaba Saminejad, who has been in prison since February last year was taken in handcuffs (photo) to sit his exams at Tehran's Azad University on 21 January 2006.

The weblogger was photographed inside the Tehran university as he was going to take his exam and the photo was then posted on his former blog.

He was first arrested in November 2004 for speaking out against the arrest of three colleagues. While he was in prison, his website was hacked into by people linked to the Iranian Islamist Hezbollah movement. On leaving jail, he relaunched his blog at a new address, which led to his re-imprisonment, on 12 February 2005.

Mojtaba was sentenced in June 2005 to two years in prison for "insulting the Supreme Guide". One month later he was given an extra ten months in prison for incitement to "immorality".



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