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COMMENTS: Show Trial in Teheran
Last Thursday NBC's Richard Engel estimated that the Islamic Republic of Iran was holding 1,000 political prisoners after its crackdown against protests alleging ballot fraud in the presidential election. ABC's Jim Sciutto quoted an estimate of 200 dead. Now CBS has Elizabeth Palmer file from London on the official certification of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second presidential term. Her numbers were 30 dead and 300 in detention: "Over the weekend the regime staged another unconvincing show, a mass trial of about 100 prominent reformists." Palmer showed before and after pictures of former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, whom she had interviewed in 2005. At the trial "Abtahi appeared gaunt and wan after six weeks in jail."
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