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India in talks with Iran on release of fishermen
Jul 5, 2008, 14:41 GMT
New Delhi - Indian officials on Saturday continued talks with their Iranian counterparts to secure the release of 17 fishermen arrested on Saudi fishing vessels that had strayed into Iranian waters, diplomatic officials said.
Four Saudi fishing vessels, manned by a crew of 17 Indian nationals, were captured for illegally fishing in Iran's territorial waters near that country's nuclear power plant at Bushehr on Thursday, IANS news agency reported.
The seizure took place about 50 kilometres south of the nearly- completed nuclear power station.
India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said Friday that India was in touch with the Iranian government to secure the release of the fishermen but that it was a complicated process.
He said the negotiations involved the Saudi fishing company which was supposed to have paid a certain fine but had not yet done so.
'We are in touch with the Iranian government and we are trying very hard to get (the fishermen) released as soon as possible,' he said at a press briefing.
Iran keenly tracks the movement of foreign vessels in its waters. In March 2007, Iran created an international stir when it seized 15 British sailors and marines. Three months later, Iran captured three United Arab Emirates fishing boats.
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Yes.....no spies.........better bombs from the skies........dipped in pig blood if at all possible.
Iran is a dirty county, full of thieves and kidnappers.
AHMED BATEBI HAS ESCAPED TO THE UNITED STATES--
The brave Iranian student activist who was sentenced to death and who was severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran has arrived safely in the United States!
During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through Iraq and Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC.
Ahmed Batebi is the Iranian student who gained international fame for his appearance on the cover of The Economist magazine holding up a bloodied shirt claiming to belong to a fellow student beaten by the Basij paramilitaries. The photo, which has been called 'an icon for Iran's student reform movement,' was taken during the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999 in Tehran. Human Rights activist Shirin Ebadi, reports that the shirt belonged to Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad, a student who was shot and killed reportedly by a plainclothes police or vigilante.
Ahmed Batebi was one of four people who received a death sentence in a closed-door trial by a Revolutionary Court on charges relating to 'creating street unrest' and 'agitating people to create unrest,' and 'endangering national security' following the demonstrations. Batebi, in an open letter addressed to the judiciary, wrote that he had been beaten in his 'testicles, legs, and abdominal area- -Wiki.
Ahmad Batebi is now in Washington D.C. and had a tv appearance on VOA Persian a few days ago in which he spoke of the horrific torture he endured at the hands of his interrogators for 9 years!!!
Iranian blogger Aryamehr has more on Batebi's escape to America where he describes more of Batebi's horrible torture.
This is a MAJOR BLOW to the brutal Iranian Regime!
He must have been kept in GITMO type of jail and not cells for human beings. Is GITMO in IRAN?
What about Sherma, Desaie, and Krishna, all three of them have been paid hundereds of thousands to spy on Iran!!
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The spies must not go freeJul 5th, 2008 - 15:36:17
The beastly nations of the world, use these poor people and spy on various nations, Iran being one to be spied on must not let the spies go free.
THEY MUST BE PUNISHED ACCORDING TO THE LAW!!
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