Washington Free Beacon - Wife of Jailed Pastor Asks Rowhani for Husband’s Freedom

September 25, 2013

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By Adam Kredo FreeBeacon.com

...Abedini has been subject to regular beatings and torture, his supporters say.

Iranian judges have refused to reduce Abedini’s sentence despite appeals from the U.S. government and Western human rights groups such as the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).

Iranian intelligence agents raided Abedini’s home in 2012 and placed him in solitary confinement.

“Then they put me into solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin Prison where I was detained four months,” Abedini recounted in his letter to Rowhani. . . .

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