WORLD IN BRIEF : IRAQ : Jailed British Nurse Freed After Appeal
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The government freed British nurse Daphne Parish, who had been sentenced to 15 years in jail for helping a British-based Iranian journalist hanged as a spy. Parish, 53, was released after an appeal by Zambian President Kenneth D. Kaunda and flown to Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. In March, she was sentenced by a revolutionary court for driving journalist Farzad Bazoft to the site of a secret military installation to check reports of an explosion. Bazoft, 31, was executed after allegedly confessing to spying for Israel and Britain.
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