The Ministry of Culture and Guidance has declared the book Bijan and Manijeh as being unprintable.The Director of Peydayesh Publications who had previously announced that sections of the classic Persian book Khosrow and Shirin will be censored, has now reported that the children’s book Bijan and Manijeh that is in it’s eighth publication will […]
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Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been sentenced to 9 years in prison
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, a 10-year ban on the practice of law and university teaching, and flogging. Dadkhah is one of the founders, with Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, of the Center of Defenders of Human Rights. He was arrested less than a month after the 2009 […]