Iranian media say that a court has imposed a six-month publishing ban on a state-owned newspaper for its allegedly false reporting. The semi-official Mehr news agency reported Sunday the suspension of IRAN, which is under the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is seen to express views close to his. The semi-official Fars also […]
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Journalists carry on working as they wait for unemployment
There is news saying newspaper that were closed down before are to be opened again. This is very interesting news to those who know what it means to lose a job over a night because their newspaper was closed down by the government. They wonder if such reopening process equalled […]
Newspaper stops publication over cartoon
The Maghreb daily reported on Monday that due to objections against a cartoon of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that appeared on the front page of its November 22 issue, publication of the paper will cease until the Press Supervisory Board convenes to decide its fate.
Detained newspaper owner’s life in danger, Supreme Leader held responsible
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about opposition leader and former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, the owner of the suspended newspaper Kalameh Sabaz, who was hospitalized two days ago in Tehran after suffering a heart attack. Mousavi has been under house arrest in an unknown location for more than 18 months.
Iranian regime sentences newspaper editor to prison for ‘propagating against government’
Ahmad Gholami, writer and editor in chief of Sharq Daily, was sentenced to one year of suspended prison by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court presided over by Abolqasem Salvati.
Security Forces Raid Iran Newspaper, Beat, Pepper Spray, and Arrest Journalists
Shortly after an armed raid by security and police forces on Iran Newspaper’s editorial offices today, a journalist present at the scene provided an eyewitness account for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Everyone is still covered in white fire extinguisher powder.
Pro-Reform Newspaper Banned In Iran
The Iranian state news agency IRNA reports that the country’s leading reformist newspaper has been banned for two months for “spreading lies.”
Head of state newspaper found guilty
Ali Akbar Javanfekr, the head of the state newspaper Iran, has been found “guilty” by the Press Jury.