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Several hundred protesters gather outside a Stockholm court carrying photos of the dead as the trial of a former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents starts in Stockholm. Protesters are calling for justice for the estimated 5,000 prisoners killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in reprisal for attacks carried out by the MEK at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. IMAGES

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