03.11.2014 – ISNA photographer released on bail Reporters Without Borders has learned that Arya Jafari, a photographer with the ISNA news agency, was released on bail on 1 November. Plainclothesmen arrested him after searching his home in Isfahan on 23 October because he covered a demonstration by about 100 people outside the lawcourts in […]
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Press Freedom Violations Recounted in Real Time January 2014
23.01.2014- Newspaper owners held arbitrarily since 2011 Mehdi Karoubi, a 77-year-old newspaper owner who has been under house arrest since February 2011, was taken to an unknown place of detention of 17 January after undergoing two back operations – a laminectomy and discectomy – at Tehran’s Arad Hospital. A dissident theologian, former parliamentary speaker […]
Reporters Without Borders: Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st Jan 2013)
20.12.2013 – Six more arrests in continuing crackdown Reporters Without Borders has been told that Alireza Darvish, a journalist working for the weekly Amrdad, was arrested at his Tehran home on 9 December by plainclothes policemen, who carried out a search. It is not yet known why he was arrested or where he is […]
Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2013)
17.10.2013-Two journalists released on completing jail terms Reporters Without Borders has learned that Alireza Roshan, a journalist who worked for the Tehran-based Sufi website Majzooban Nor and the book review section of the newspaper Shargh, was released on 15 October on completing a one-year jail sentence. Arrested during a raid on the website’s office […]