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Tag : freedom of press

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 ...

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 ...

March 23, 2016

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist, under observation in the hospital he was transferred to from Evin Prison on March ...

November 10, 2015

Cartoon 126: Khamenei’s Green Light for Press Crackdown

Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in an intensifying campaign of repression that is based on the belief, spearheaded by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, that the US intends to use ...

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 ...

August 5, 2015

Rouhani Government Suppresses Nuclear Deal’s Critics

Despite high hopes among journalists ...

March 29, 2014

Minister Says his Government not Responsible for Press Bans

Minister of Culture, Ali Jannati directed the blame for closure of 9 Dey away from Rouhani's government, telling ISNA "the Press Oversight Committee has seven members representing the Iranian Judiciary, Parliament, The ...

September 5, 2011

Reformist Weekly Banned for Publishing Image of Ahmadinejad

A source close to Shahrvand-e Emrooz Weekly told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the publication has been banned. According to a letter the publication’s management has received, the reason for the ban is cited as Article 6 of the Iranian ...

February 10, 2009

Four Journalists Sentenced to Prison, Floggings

(10 February 2009) The sentencing of four Tehran bloggers by Iran’s Judiciary Court on February 3, 2009, to prison terms, fines and flogging, despite the head of the judiciary’s admission that they had been coerced into confessing, violates their right to a fair trial, Human ...

December 11, 2008

Controversial Blogger’s Detention Confirmed

(11 December 2008) The family of Hussein Derakhshan, an Iranian blogger whose whereabouts have been a mystery for more than a month, has confirmed his detention, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

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