Formerly Imprisoned Journalists Challenge Iran Foreign Minister’s Remarks to Charlie Rose Astonished reactions to recent statements made by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a television interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose, in which he defended his government’s human rights record, continue to pour in. Siamak Ghaderi, a journalist who was dismissed from his […]
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Journalist Put on Trial for Propaganda Against State
The lawyer representing Hossein Nouraninejad, the Iranian journalist and member of the now-banned reformist political party the Participation Front, told ILNA News Agency that his client was put on trial on June 9, 2014, at Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court under Judge Salavati. Hossein Nouraninejad was charged with “propaganda against the regime” and […]
Reformist activist arrested, taken to Evin Prison
Hossein Nouraninejad, an Iranian political activist and member of the reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front party, was arrested on Monday April21. ILNA reports that Parastoo Sarmadi, Nouraninejad’s wife, has reported that officials entered their home with an arrest warrant and said that he would be taken to Ward Aleph of Evin Prison. The Kaleme […]