Tag: Roozan Newspaper

Newspaper closure, arrest may be linked to story on government critic

  Yaghma Fakhshami, a political reporter for the Roozan daily, was arrested two days after Iranian authorities banned the newspaper. ILNA reports that Fakhshami was arrested on December 24 and is now in Evin Prison. The Roozan daily was shut down on Monday December 22 by the order of the Tehran prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor’s […]