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Several arrested over Iran blogger death: judiciary
November 13, 2012
Tehran's public prosecutor has announced the arrest of "several people" over the death in detention of blogger Sattar Beheshti, the ISNA news agency reported today. "Yesterday (Monday), several people were arrested," Abbas Jafarabadi said, without elaborating. 

"When we learned about (Beheshti's) death, we began an inquiry... We hope to make the findings public within the next 10 days," he added. The judiciary's High Council of Human Rights said on Sunday that "all aspects of the case have been accurately investigated following a special order by judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani."
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