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Free Press and Free Expression Organizations to Iran: Release Jailed Journalists, WritersDate:12/02/2010 A coalition of leading international journalists', writers', and publishers' organizations today launched a campaign to press the government of Iran to release their colleagues imprisoned in the wake of last year's disputed presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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Friday, 12 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Protesters decry Iran detentionsDate:27/07/2009 Protesters have taken to the streets in several countries across the globe in support of opposition Iranian activists detained following last month's disputed presidential election...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Act V of Tehran judicial travestyDate:17/09/2009 'The prosecution again put the media at the centre of its case during the fifth hearing before a Tehran revolutionary court on 14 September in the mass trial of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection, this time going so far as to accuse Facebook and YouTube of waging a psychological war against Iran...
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Thursday, 17 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Act V of Tehran judicial travestyDate:21/09/2009 'The prosecution again put the media at the centre of its case during the fifth hearing before a Tehran revolutionary court on 14 September in the mass trial of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection, this time going so far as to accuse Facebook and YouTube of waging a psychological war against Iran...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Alarm at violent arrest of women's rights activist Shadi SadrDate:27/07/2009 Arrest fuels fear that wave of arrests is intensifying Amnesty International fears the wave of arrests of civil society activists in Iran is intensifying after the leading lawyer and women's human rights activist Shadi Sadr was violently arrested in Tehran this morning on her way to Friday prayers...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Arbitrary arrest/Fear of tortureDate:03/07/2009 At least 13 journalists are among scores of people arrested in their homes or offices since the disputed Iranian Presidential election on 12 June...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Arrests continue, one journalist released Date:15/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Mohamed Ali Dadkhah, a lawyer who represents many journalists and cyber-dissidents and who, together with Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, helped to set up the Human Rights Defenders Centre...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: ARTICLE 19 Calls for an Urgent Investigation into the Death of Blogger Omid Reza MirsayafiDate:20/03/2009 On 18 March 2009, Omid Reza Mirsayafi, a 29-year-old Iranian blogger died in prison in Tehran after he failed to receive medical assistance...
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Friday, 20 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: As Far as We Know . . .?Date:14/01/2009 In response to a question from a reporter who asked about the allocation of a million ?Dollars for the assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the spokesperson for ?Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hassan Ghashghavi said, You know that the flow of ?information and expression of opinion in Iran enjoys freedom...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: At least 13 jailed as crackdown enters second week Date:23/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to release all journalists detained in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election and to lift the onerous press restrictions that are choking information at a time when the country and the world most need it...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Bloggers demonised and persecutedDate:21/09/2009 In addition to the political trials and arrests of hundreds of government opponents, repression in Iran is concentrating on Internet users...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Correspondent's confession posted by news agency; photographer releasedDate:09/07/2009 'New York, June 30, 2009 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Correspondent's confession posted by news agency; photographer releasedDate:09/07/2009 'New York, June 30, 2009 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Correspondent's confession posted by news agency; photographer releasedDate:09/07/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: CPJ asks Iran to release imprisoned journalistsDate:23/09/2009 'Dear Mr...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: CPJ calls for humanitarian release as Ramadan endsDate:11/09/2009 As the end of Muslim holy month of Ramadan approaches, Maziar Bahari, a Canadian-Iranian national, continues to be held in an Iranian jail under deplorable conditions...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: CPJ relieved by release of journalist in IranDate:06/07/2009 In response to reports that Iason Athanasiadis, a journalist detained in Iran since June 17, was released today we issued the following statement...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Details emerge about show trial detainees being denied their rightsDate:17/08/2009 'Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the Stalin-style prosecutions and trials of critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad’s reelection that are taking place in Tehran...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Escalation of Attacks and Censorship After ElectionsDate:15/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately to unblock Iranians’ access to international media, to lift bans on local newspapers and websites, and to stop harassing Iranian and foreign journalists in the wake of last Friday’s presidential elections...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Forty-one journalists in prison after a month of unrestDate:16/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders has expressed great concern over the growing repression of journalists and cyber-dissidents in Iran after a month of post-election protests and called for them all to be freed at once...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: French student held because of photographs and e-mailsDate:09/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very worried by French graduate student Clotilde Reiss's arrest at Tehran airport as she was about to leave the country on 1 July 2009...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Government still targeting journalists employed by foreign mediaDate:23/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is outraged that the Iranian judicial authorities are continuing to hold journalists employed by foreign news media including, Maziar Bahari, the correspondent of the US news magazine Newsweek, arrested exactly three months ago, and Fariba Pajooh, a stringer for Radio France Internationale and other media, who today begins her second month in detention...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: In Iran, journalist association closed down, more arrestedDate:10/08/2009 'New York, August 6, 2009--Officials shut down the office of the Association of Iranian Journalists in Tehran on Wednesday night, just after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term, according to international news reports...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iran charges journalists with 'lying'Date:27/08/2009 The fourth session of the mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, including journalists, took place in Tehran today...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iran government faces problem of 'legitimacy': EU presidencyDate:27/07/2009 Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Tuesday that the Iranian government was suffering from problems of legitimacy among voters, following the controversial presidential elections last month...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian government must allow peaceful commemorations of 18 Tir eventsDate:13/07/2009 'Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of student-led protests by security forces in Iran, which resulted in the death of at least one student and the torture and ill-treatment of others...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian government must allow peaceful commemorations of 18 Tir eventsDate:13/07/2009 'Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of student-led protests by security forces in Iran, which resulted in the death of at least one student and the torture and ill-treatment of others...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian government must allow peaceful commemorations of 18 Tir eventsDate:13/07/2009 Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of student-led protests by security forces in Iran, which resulted in the death of at least one student and the torture and ill-treatment of others...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian journalist arrested, others summonedDate:09/09/2009 'Iranian authorities arrested one journalist today while security forces summoned at least 15 who were among the signatories of a recent petition demanding the release of detained journalists, local press reported...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Journalists face trial in Iran as arrests continueDate:03/08/2009 After more than a month of detention, several journalists may face trial beginning on Saturday on charges of sending pictures to enemy media...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Lawyers protest lack of access in IranDate:17/08/2009 'New York, August 14, 2009--In a letter addressed to the head of the Iranian judiciary, four defense lawyers protested that they were not allowed to attend the latest hearing, on August 8, in a mass trial in which more than 100 defendants, including journalists, stand accused of anti-state activities...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: One blogger arrested, another made to confess in blog from prisonDate:08/09/2009 'Reporters Without Borders calls for the release Ali Asguar Jamali, a blogger and doctor based in the northern city of Qasvin who has been arrested along with other activists for “inciting actions against national security including protests and insults against government officials by means of publications and meeting, ” the news agency Fars reported on 2 September...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: One hundred prominent journalists call for release of Maziar BahariDate:17/07/2009 More than 100 prominent journalists from 47 countries sent a petition to the Iranian government today calling for the immediate release of Maziar Bahari, Newsweek's Tehran correspondent, who has been held without charge in an Iranian jail since June 21...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Opposition Presidential Candidates Blocked from Equitable Access to the MediaDate:01/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 is concerned that opposition candidates, contesting Iran’s presidential election on 12 June 2009, are being hampered in their campaigning by the Government’s intermittent blocking of social networking sites and closure of independent newspapers...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: Photojournalist Recalls Heady Days, Grim Aftermath Date:09/02/2009 Reza Deghati has spent the last three decades capturing images of despair, hope, and the lives of ordinary people in war-torn areas around the world...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: President Abolhassan Banisadr Supporting Freedom of Expression for Baha’isDate:18/02/2009 In Iran, debate about the manner in which the government is dealing with the Baha'i community and its followers gains a new intensity each day...
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: Profile: Mohammad Khatami Date:09/02/2009 Mohammad Khatami, who has announced he will run for re-election as president of Iran after a gap of four years, served in the post for eight years...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Pro-reform daily closed one day after bringing out first issue in five yearsDate:19/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the pro-reform daily Yas-e-no’s closure on 16 May, immediately after it brought out its first issue in five years...
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Protests against election results or the entire establishment?Date:16/07/2009 Particularly in the final days of campaigning, the real race was clearly one that would be a choice between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Rafsanjani condemns Iranian regime's handling of post-election unrestDate:20/07/2009 One of Iran's most powerful clerics today attacked the Iranian government for its handling of protests and unrest that followed the disputed presidential election result...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Reformist Newspaper Closed as Rape Allegations Reverberate through the Corridors of PowerDate:18/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 is concerned about reports that authorities have closed Etemad-e Melli, a leading reformist newspaper Iran...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Seven media workers, including Franco-Iranian cameraman, arrested Date:20/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a crackdown in recent days on photographers and cameramen...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: UN Human Rights Council Reviews Situation for Free ExpressionDate:15/02/2010 As the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) meets today in Geneva to engage in its Universal Periodic Review of Iran, ARTICLE 19 again raises serious concerns about the failure of the Islamic Republic to respect and promote freedom of expression...
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Monday, 15 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: UNESCO chief backs G8 call on Iran to respect human rightsDate:06/07/2009 The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding freedom of expression and press freedom today voiced his strong support for the recent call issued by the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) nations on Iran to respect fundamental human rights...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: US Senate targets Iran censorshipDate:27/07/2009 The US Senate has approved funds for measures to help Iran's opposition defeat curbs on news and Internet social networking sites it has used to organize since a disputed presidential vote...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran:ARTICLE 19 Urges Human Rights Council to Address Free ExpressionDate:04/09/2009 ARTICLE 19 has provided a Submission to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) raising serious concerns about the failure of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect and promote freedom of expression in that country...
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Friday, 4 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran unrest: MPs call for death of Mousavi and KarroubiDate:15/02/2011 Members of Iran's parliament have called for opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi to be tried and executed...
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Media outlets: Iran must allow access to reporterDate:11/03/2009 The Associated Press has joined several other major news outlets in demanding that Iran specify how a detained American journalist broke the law, and that the country allow an outside group to evaluate her health and living conditions...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Middle Israel: Iran's upheaval in contextDate:06/07/2009 The upheaval in Iran may have ended and, conversely, it may have hardly begun, but from what we have seen so far, several mostly somber conclusions already arise...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
There's a balance between freedom of expression and respect for religion: Sampaio Date:20/10/2008 TEHRAN -- There is a balance to be found between freedom of expression and respect for religion and for religious feelings and principles, Jorge Sampaio, the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC), said here on Thursday...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran bans mention of opposition leaders in pressDate:25/08/2010 Iranian newspapers have been banned from publishing the names or photos of the leaders of Iran's green movement, according to a confidential governmental ruling revealed by an opposition website...
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests Date:17/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests over the disputed presidential election...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran calls on int’l activists to help freedom of Palestinian journalistDate:14/01/2009 Deputy Minister of Culture and the Islamic Guidance Ali-Reza Malekian called on international press community on Monday to take necessary measures for the rapid release of a Palestinian journalist illegally arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran charges imprisoned journalist with spyingDate:09/04/2009 Roxana Saberi, who has dual U...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran court to hear U.S.-born reporter's appealDate:06/05/2009 An Iranian court will hold a hearing next week on the appeal of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi against her eight-year jail sentence for espionage, the judiciary said Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran hinders web searches leading up to planned rally, sources sayDate:14/02/2011 Iranian authorities have blocked the word Bahman – the 11th month of the Persian calendar – from Internet searches within the country, according to an opposition website...
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Monday, 14 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran moves to silence opposition with internet crime unitDate:15/11/2009 Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country's political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet...
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Sunday, 15 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran must disclose identities of detained Germans Date:14/10/2010 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to immediately disclose the names of two Germans who were arrested on Sunday and described as journalists in several news reports...
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Thursday, 14 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran policing Net in new attack on oppositionDate:14/11/2009 Iran has deployed a special police unit to sweep websites for political material and prosecute those deemed to be spreading lies, Iranian media reported Saturday, in a step clearly aimed at choking off the embattled opposition’s last real means of keeping its campaign alive...
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Saturday, 14 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran sentences Roxana Saberi to 8 yearsDate:20/04/2009 An Iranian American journalist accused of spying for the U...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian authorities crack down on mediaDate:16/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an end to the Iranian authorities' ongoing crackdown on media following the disputed re-election of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian blogger given leave from prisonDate:09/12/2010 The dissident Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan – known as Hoder – has been released on bail of $1...
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Thursday, 9 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian court sentences a journalist to 13 years and 74 lashes in absentiaDate:13/05/2010 An Iranian court has sentenced Maziar Bahari a journalist to 13 years and 74 lashes in absentia...
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Thursday, 13 May 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi Named 2011 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize WinnerDate:07/04/2011 I send my deepest congratulations to jailed Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi for being named the 2011 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize winner...
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Thursday, 7 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian journalist gets 30 Year writing banDate:09/06/2010 The Daily Shargh, Iran’s leading moderate newspaper (which was banned for three years) reported on June 9, 2010, that an award-winning woman journalist Jila Baniyaghoob (39) was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and banned from writing or reporting for 30 years...
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian newspaper raided, employees detainedDate:24/06/2009 Iranian security agents arrested about 25 employees of Kalameh Sabz, the reformist newspaper owned by presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, after raiding the paper's offices on Monday evening, according to local and international news reports...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian president orders review of Roxana Saberi's case Date:21/04/2009 In response to a letter sent on Sunday by Irans president urging the public prosecutor to ensure justice for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, the Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Saberi to be released on bail pending her appeal...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran's persecution of Bahá'ís is devastatingDate:13/03/2009 What connects an academic, a blogger, a Nobel prize winner, a postgraduate researcher, a cyber feminist, a journalist and a woman who let her head covering slip? The answer? They have all had their freedom to express themselves violated...
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Friday, 13 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to mediaDate:17/06/2009 Iran's most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Top Iranian Lawyer Unjustly Sentenced to 11 years in PrisonDate:27/01/2011 UN Human Rights Council Should Act to Address Crisis (9 January 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called the 11-year prison sentence of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh a “gross miscarriage of justice” and said that it should be overturned by an appeals court...
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Thursday, 27 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Talking about a revolution: IranDate:22/07/2009 Following the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hundreds of thousands of protestors flocked to the streets of Tehran in a passionate bid to seek justice amidst allegations of voting irregularities...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IranDate:16/07/2009 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Iran...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran's judicial killing spreeDate: 07/07/2011 "Factional infighting, paranoia, economic ineptitude and deepening confrontation with the west have characterised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's leadership of Iran...
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Monday, 11 July 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 11 July 2011
Academy calls for release of Iranian film-makersDate: 20 October 2011 "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has led Hollywood industry organisations in calling for the release of jailed Iranian film-makers...
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Thursday, 20 October 2011Last Modified:
Friday, 21 October 2011
Imprisonments jump worldwide, and Iran is worstDate: 08 December 2011 "The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide shot up more than 20 percent to its highest level since the mid-1990s, an increase driven largely by widespread jailings across the Middle East and North Africa...
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Thursday, 8 December 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Iran clamps down on internet useDate: 5 January 2012 "Iran is clamping down heavily on web users before parliamentary elections in March with draconian rules on cybercafes and preparations to launch a national internet...
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Thursday, 5 January 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Middle East and North Africa: Historic Opportunity for Freedom of ExpressionDate: 16 December 2011 "ARTICLE 19 has closely monitored events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as change has swept across the region in the last twelve...
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Friday, 16 December 2011Last Modified:
Friday, 6 January 2012
Iran turns the screws on dissidents ahead of elections, report findsDate: 28 February 2012 "Iran has escalated its crackdown on freedom of expression ahead of this week's parliamentary election, Amnesty International said in a report published today...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Iranian human rights lawyer jailed for 18 yearsDate: 04 March 2012 "A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to 18 years in prison by a Tehran revolutionary court, his daughter said on Sunday...
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Sunday, 4 March 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 8 March 2012