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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20 – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroudi ordered a ban on prison leave for “enemies of the Islamic
Republic”, including political prisoners and “trouble-makers”, a
semi-official daily reported on Thursday.
Under the new order prisoners can no longer be granted temporary prison
leave for various reasons, the hard-line daily Kayhan wrote.
Among those effected by the order are political opponents of the ruling
theocracy, “trouble-makers and seditious elements in society”, and goods
and drugs smugglers.
The daily quoted Mohammad-Reza Foulad-Amoli, the chief prosecutor in the
northern province of Mazandaran, as saying, “This decree will be carried
out in order to prevent new corruption in society”.
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