Governments and other organizations across the world are perfecting techniques to prevent journalists from shining a light on corruption and human rights abuses. From trumped-up charges, removing work licences to murder, here are 10 ways journalists are repressed and prevented from reporting freely and fairly. Physical attacksIn some countries such as Syria, Turkmenistan and […]
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Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison
The Turkish authorities arrested Hossein Salmanzadeh, an Iranian photojournalist and a refugee in Turkey, on April 26 and have detained him inside the Ankara Security Police Detention Center, Javad Moghimi Parsa told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Javad Moghimi, Salmanzadeh’s close friend and former colleague, Salmanzadeh embarked on a […]
Three Gonabadi Dervishes Arrested in Kavar
Three Gonabadi Dervishes, residents of Kavar county in Fars province arrested at their homes this afternoon 10 Ordibehesht 1392 (April 30, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, today twenty security agents and Plain-clothes entered the homes of Messrs. Mohammad Ali Sadeghi, Mohammad Ali Dehghan and Mohsen Esmaeeli and arrested them without a warrant and then the […]
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad Released From Bandar Abbas’s Central Prison
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, was released after spending nine days in detention.According to Majzooban Noor website, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad who was arrested on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013) after being interrogated in Bandar Abbas’s Intelligence office for 5 days and had […]
Iranian Activist Flees Iran, Says ‘Civil Society Is In A State Of Desperation’
Well-known Iranian human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi — who had been banned from his studies, jailed a number of times, and sentenced to five years in prison — recently fled Iran. Goudarzi, a member and former head of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, was honored while behind bars with the National Press Club’s […]
Teransfer of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad to Bandar Abbas’s Central Prison/Setting Bail at 130 Million Toman
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, was transferred to the central prison of southern city of Bandar Abbas yesterday on 5 Ordibehesht 1392( April 25, 2013) and his bail was set in the amount of 130 million toman.According to Majzooban Noor, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website who was […]
Kasra Nouri Sentenced to Four Years and Four Months in Prison
Kasra Nouri, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, was sentenced to four years and four months in prison.According to Majzooban Noor, Kasra Nouri was sentenced last week at Branch 3 of Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Rashidi to four years and four months imprisonment on charges of […]
Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison
Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing him and other Christian converts of waging a “soft […]
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad Was Visited by His Family in Bandar Abbas’s Central Prison
The family of Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, succeeded to visit with him.According to Majzooban Noor, his family had a short visit with him in Bandar Abbas’s central Prison this afternoon on 1 Ordibehesht 1392 ( April 21, 2013).The family of this Dervish right activist and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, […]
Fariborz Raisdana released from prison
Prominent economic analyst Fariborz Dana was released from prison. According to CHRR, Fariborz Raisdana, imprisoned economic analyst, former university professor and member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, was released on April 15th after serving his prison term. On December 21, 2010, Raisdana was arrested following his criticism of the “targeted subsidies initiative” calling it a […]