Identifier
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Classification
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06VIENNA832
2006-03-20 13:19:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Vienna
Cable title:
DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON RELEASE OF IRANIAN PRISONER
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UNCLAS VIENNA 000832
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/IR, DRL, EUR/ERA AND EUR/AGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PGOV SOCI IR EUN AU
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON RELEASE OF IRANIAN PRISONER
AKBAR GANJI
REF: STATE 42097
This message is sensitive but unclassified.
(SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on March 17, the day
of receipt, to Austrian MFA Iran watcher Oskar Wuestinger.
We requested that MFA consider issuing a statement on behalf
of the European Union calling for Ganji's release.
Wuestinger thanked us for the information and promised to
look into the matter. Post notes that according to media
reports, Ganji was released from prison on the evening of
March 17.
McCaw