WORLD IN BRIEF : FRANCE : Prisoners Protest Pardon for Iranians
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Hundreds of inmates at prisons around France refused to return to their cells in a wave of protests against President Francois Mitterrand’s pardon of five members of a pro-Iranian assassination team. Protests began erupting after Friday’s pardon of Anis Naccache and four accomplices. He had served 10 years of a life sentence for the failed assassination in 1980 in Paris of Shahpour Bakhtiar, Iran’s former prime minister. Two people were killed in the attack.
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