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    Bani Sadr given extra French police protection

    PARIS, Dec 11 (AFP) - Exiled former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr has been given added French police protection following a wave of kidnaps and assassinations in Iran, he said Friday.

    "Protection has been reinforced around my home" since mid-November, following the killing of nationalist opposition leader Daryush Foryhar and his wife, he said.

    Bani Sadr, who lives in the Paris suburbs, said he was at threat and claimed that Iranian hardliners had drawn up a list of 60 to 70 murder targets at home and abroad.

    This week the body of Iranian writer Mohammad Mokhtari was found outside the capital.

    In a statement Friday, UNESCO chief Federico Mayor slammed Mokhtari's "odious assassinaton" as a crime against those fighting "for a more just and freer world."

    Mokhtari's death followed that of Magid Sharif, an Iranian writer, journalist and translator close to liberal opposition circles, in November.

    Thursday, the Paris-based Iranian Committee against Repression and State Terrorism said another writer and human rights activist, Mohammad Pouyandeh, had gone missing on Wednesday.

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