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CRI – On Friday, the residents of southern Iranian city of Shiraz who had gathered on the fortieth day after the death of Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, ripped and burned the two meter wide portrait of symbols of the clerical regime, Khamenei and Khomeini, in city's Nowdan Boulevard.
In a similar ceremony held in central city of Qom, a number of young people who had participated in the event were arrested. They were beaten and transferred to an unknown location.
The plainclothes and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security agents were actively taking pictures of participants but they captured a young man who was filming the event. He was taken away by the agents while beating and abusing him.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 29, 2010
