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Image of Kazem (left) hanging out with fellow climbers on K2 in 2007. Kazem has now been jailed in Iran.

K2 summiteer Kazem Faridian jailed in Iran

Posted: Aug 13, 2009 02:47 am EDT

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(K2Climb.net) He summited K2 in 2007. Last year time came for Nanga Parbat, in the first Iranian expedition led by a woman and also the first to have a corporate sponsor. This season, Kazem Faridian is not joining fellow mountaineers in Pakistan. He is held in Iran's most notorious jail, Evin prison, section 7, friends and Iranian news agencies report. Arrested on June 25Following the Presidential Election this summer, protesters (mostly young) swarmed major city streets in Iran and sent tweets to western media about their...

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