Executed Prisoners’ Kin Protest in Iran
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From United Press International
MANAMA, Bahrain — Revolutionary Guards broke up a demonstration Friday by relatives of executed political prisoners in Iran’s Gateway to Heaven Cemetery, where the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is buried, an Iranian opposition group said.
“Revolutionary Guards moved in to the Behesht Zahra Cemetery on Friday and arrested many men, women and children,” a spokesman for the Baghdad-based Moujahedeen said in a telephone interview.
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