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Sepideh Qolian, a civic activist who has been campaigning to prove that she and a labor leader, Esmail Bakhshi, were tortured during their imprisonment in November-December, says she has been arrested again on Sunday January 20.

The two were first arrested together with several other sugar mill workers who protested for months last year demanding unpaid wages among other things.

"I've been arrested," Ms. Qolian wrote in a very brief tweet on Sunday.

This came as more bad news emerged about workers' declining purchasing power pushing their living standard to an all-time low.

While Qolian and Bakhshi have been complaining about their torture in custody, Iranian government officials categorically denied claims of torture in Iranian prisons.

Iran's state TV on Saturday broadcast videos of Qolian and Bakhshi, as well as another activist who said they had not been treated badly while in Jail and "confirmed" that they were linked to a foreign-based Marxist group. The Marxist organization has officially denied the alleged link as a fabrication by Iran's Intelligence Ministry.

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