Mr. Abbas Abdi This is Me

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1. 1. World Scene - The Washington Times: World Scene - May 15, 2005

   www.washtimes.com/world/200505 - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/15/2005   Last Visited: 5/16/2005

   Pro-reform activist Abbas Abdi was convicted in February 2003 and was serving an eight-year prison sentence.
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   Mr. Abdi, a senior member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's largest reformist party, was jailed in November 2002 after conducting a poll showing strong public support for dialogue with the United States.

2. 2. Iran News - Iran frees reformist jailed over pro-US poll

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   Published on: 5/14/2005   Last Visited: 5/14/2005

   Abbas Abdi, a prominent member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), the main pro-reform party, was in 2003 sentenced to four and half years behind bars on charges including "providing information to the enemies of the Islamic regime."
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   "Abbas Abdi has been cleared and freed after 30 months in prison," he added, saying the Supreme Court's five judges were "unanimous" in their ruling to free one of Iran's most high-profile prisoners.
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   Contacted at his home by AFP, Abdi politely declined to make any comment.
   
   "I prefer to say nothing, because if I do say something it would stir things up, so therefore I will shut up for the time being," he said.
   
   In late 2002, Abdi sparked uproar among hardliners and a judicial backlash by releasing an opinion poll stating that 74 percent of Iranians want their clerical leaders to talk with Washington.
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   Ironically, Abdi was also one of the leading players in the seizing of the US embassy in Tehran in 1980 and the holding of its diplomats for 444 days.
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   The detainees had complained of spending long periods in solitary confinement, and at one point Abdi threatened to go on a hunger strike.
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   Abbas Abdi, a prominent member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), the main pro-reform party, was in 2003 sentenced to four and half years behind bars on charges including "providing information to the enemies of the Islamic regime."
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   "Abbas Abdi has been cleared and freed after 30 months in prison," he added, saying the Supreme Court's five judges were "unanimous" in their ruling to free one of Iran's most high-profile prisoners.
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   Contacted at his home by AFP, Abdi politely declined to make any comment.
   
   "I prefer to say nothing, because if I do say something it would stir things up, so therefore I will shut up for the time being," he said.
   
   In late 2002, Abdi sparked uproar among hardliners and a judicial backlash by releasing an opinion poll stating that 74 percent of Iranians want their clerical leaders to talk with Washington.
   ...
   Ironically, Abdi was also one of the leading players in the seizing of the US embassy in Tehran in 1980 and the holding of its diplomats for 444 days.
   ...
   The detainees had complained of spending long periods in solitary confinement, and at one point Abdi threatened to go on a hunger strike.

3. 3. Association Of Iranian Journalists - www.AOIJ.org

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   Published on: 1/21/2004   Last Visited: 3/2/2005

   Abbas Abdi, Director of the research center, Ayandeh and ex-editor of the daily Salam and former staff member of many reformist newspapers, was arrested at his home on 4 November 2002public prosecutor Said Mortazavi accused Ayandeh of receiving money from the US polling firm Gallup "or from a foreign embassy." Abdi has been solitary confinement for at least 6 months. Before going to prison (for the second time), he had written many radical articles against conservatives