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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jul. 26 – A 30-year-old woman set
herself on fire outside a justice department office in southern Iran on
Monday evening, eye-witnesses reported.
The unidentified woman was on temporary parole from prison in the southern
city of Marvdasht
and had gone to the justice department to request an extension of her prison
leave. When her application was rejected, she attempted to commit suicide by
setting herself on fire. She is reportedly in critical condition.
A Marvdasht resident reached by telephone said it
was rumored in town that the woman had been
brutally treated by prison guards.
Prison conditions in Iran
have become the focus of international concern after the publication of a
report by an internal investigative body of Iran’s judiciary. The report
discovered serious cases of torture, solitary confinement, long-term detention
without trial, and other abuses.
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