Media advocacy group RSF worried about health of jailed Iranian activist

A Paris-based media advocacy group expressed concern Friday for the health of an Iranian activist jailed on security charges who was earlier this week rushed to hospital and urged authorities to release him from prison.

Reporters Without Borders said journalist and human rights activist Emadeddin Baghi was taken to hospital Wednesday, after suffering a "double heart attack" in the Evin prison in Tehran, where he has been held for the past 74 days.

He was taken back to a new wing cell of Evin on Thursday evening, the press freedom organization, known by its French initials RSF, said in a statement made available to The Associated Press.

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