July 14, 2003

Maryam Abdi, in front of a picture of her father, Abbas, a senior member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's largest reformist party, speaks with reporters during a news conference at her home in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 13, 2003. Maryam presented a letter from her father from Evin prison, north of the Iranian capital, saying that Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi had openly threatened to harass his family and forced him to write confessions while in jail. Abdi was jailed in November 2002over charges of selling classified information to foreign intelligence agencies after a poll he conducted showed strong public support for dialogue with America. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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