Cartoon 164: Freedom of Speech
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Tag : Freedom expression
October 4, 2016
Rouhani Press Bills Would Further Erode Press Freedom in Iran
Experts Suspect Intelligence Establishment’s Direct Influence The government of President Hassan Rouhani is preparing to introduce two bills to Parliament that media experts and journalists say could further erode press freedom and ...
June 24, 2016
Pro-Rouhani Newspaper Suspended in Hardline Campaign Against President
A week after Tehran’s hardline chief prosecutor announced he would be suing the editor-in-chief of the major reformist newspaper Ghanoon, the paper has ...
June 22, 2016
Imprisoned Journalist Who Sent Letter to Supreme Leader Saying He Was Tortured is Hospitalized
Ehsan Mazandarani, who went on hunger strike on May 17, is in intensive care following a heart attack A little over a month after he sent a ...
May 5, 2016
Iranian Journalists Face Growing Threats and Intimidation by Authorities
Tactics Meant to Sow Fear among Independent Journalists in Wake of Reformists’ Parliamentary Election Gains Iran’s Intelligence Ministry officials are increasingly harassing and threatening independent journalists in an apparent move to dissuade them ...
April 11, 2016
Journalist Afarin Chitsaz Held Incommunicado at Evin Prison for Five Months
Status of Case and Charges against Her Remain Unknown Concern is growing for the well-being of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz, who has been imprisoned incommunicado since her arrest ...
February 24, 2016
Prominent Reformist Journalist Protests Solitary Confinement with Third Hunger Strike
The imprisoned political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has resumed his hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement on February 21, 2016 despite having lost an alarming amount of weight. He ...
January 28, 2016
Family of Imprisoned Iranian Producer: Canada Must Do More
The family of prisoner of conscience Mostafa Azizi is calling on Canada to exert more pressure on Iran to release him following the prisoner swap that led to the freedom of four Iranian-Americans held ...
January 28, 2016
Iranian Artists Call for Immediate Release of Music Distributors
A coalition of Iranian artists have called for the immediate release of three music producers sentenced to six years in prison for promoting underground music in Iran. “This kind of sentencing by the Judiciary is more believable ...
October 19, 2015
Kurdish Filmmaker’s Six-Year Prison Sentence and 223 Lashes Illegal, Says Lawyer
Keywan Karimi The harsh judgment against filmmaker Keywan Karimi for “insulting the sacred” and “illegitimate relations” is baseless and illegal, his lawyer Amir Raeesian told the International Campaign for ...
October 14, 2015
Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison
Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions October 14, 2015—A Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced the poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi ...
October 12, 2015
Blogger Still Held Behind Bars despite Completing Sentence as He Awaits Exile
Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, Blogger The imprisoned blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari continues to be held behind bars, even though he has completed his term, as officials dither over ...
September 18, 2015
Artist Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Staff Verbal Abuse
Atena Faraghdani, Artist and Civil Activist The artist and civil activist Atena Faraghdani, behind bars since January 10, 2015, went on a hunger strike ...
August 24, 2015
Imprisoned Cartoonist Grateful for International Courage Award
Atena Faraghdani Jailed artist Atena Faraghdani has expressed gratitude upon hearing she was awarded the 2015 Courage in Cartooning Award by the Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI), her father ...