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Iran – Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2011)
30.10.2011-Three journalists freed on bail pending trial Reporters Without Borders has learned that three journalists – Mehdi Afsharnik, Ali Akrami and Mohammad Hidari – were released on bail on 29 October pending trial. After being arrested at their homes on 5 October, they were held in isolation in Tehran’s Evin prison without any explanation being given for their detention. Three other journalists who were arrested in the past few months – Amir Mehdi Alamehzadeh of the news agency ILNA, (…)
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Iraq, Operazione militare turco-iraniana
L’esercito turco e quello iraniano stanno eseguendo un’operazione nel nord dell’Iraq alla ricerca di terroristi curdi. In Iran il 14 per cento della popolazione è curda; in Turchia i ribelli del Pkk hanno intensificato negli ultimi mesi i loro attacchi, uccidendo decine di guardie di sicurezza e dieci civili, tra cui tre nell’esplosione della bomba ad [...]
Iran – Regime continues to wage its war against foreign media
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government’s targeting of the BBC’s Farsi-language TV station, BBC Persian. Its satellite signal was jammed on 16 September when it broadcast a documentary about the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The next day, pro-government media announced the arrest of several of the station’s “collaborators” in Iran. Culture and Islamic guidance minister Seyed Mohammad Hosseini confirmed the arrests to the government news agency ISNA yesterday. “They (…)
World, Insurrezioni: dopo Libia quale altro paese ?
I popoli hanno bisogno di democrazia e per questo motivo stanno accadendo fatti che, mai si pensava potessero avvenire, almeno per l’uomo della strada. Negli scenari apocalittici già programmati a tavolino da menti d’elite, quale sarà il prossimo paese che scenderà in piazza ? Attualmente nel range delle probabilità si parla anche degli Stati Uniti, [...]
Iran – More arbitrary arrests, concealment of political prisoners’ whereabouts
Reporters Without Borders condemns the increase in repression in recent weeks in Iran. One of the latest victims is the blogger Kouhyar Goudarzi, who has been detained since 1 August, the day that Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, arrived in Tehran to begin a fact-finding visit. Goudarzi’s mother was arrested the next day in the southestern city of Kerman. Goudarzi is being held incommunicado. The reason for his arrest has still not been (…)
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Iran – Government develops “National Internet” to combat international Internet’s impact
Communication and information technology minister Reza Taqipour Anvari announced at the start of July that the first phase of a “National Internet,” also called “Clean Internet,” will get under way at the end of August, offering an 8 Mbps speed broadband connection that will later rise to 20 Mbps and a national search engine called “Ya Haq” (Oh Just One) to be launched in early 2012. The project’s aim is to “better manage national emails and information gathering within the country and to improve (…)
Iran – Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2011)
20.07.2011-Two bloggers arrested in continuing repression Mehdi Khazali, an outspoken government critic in his blog , was detained on 18 July after responding to a summons from the intelligence ministry in Tehran. It is his third arrest in less than two years. The last time he was arrested, on 13 October 2010, he was held for a month before being released on bail of 200 million tomans (150,000 euros). Khazali is the son of Ayatollah Abolghasem Khazali, an influential member of the Council (…)
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Iran – Plight of seven detained netizens still worrying one year after their arrest
Exactly one year after seven young netizens were arrested in a series of raids by intelligence ministry agents, Reporters Without Borders is reiterating the call for their release that it made in a letter on 23 February to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay and Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani, the head of the Iranian judiciary. Arrested on 17 and 18 July 2010, Iman Masjedi, Amir Latifi, Mohammad Reza Gholizadeh, Ladan Mostoufi Ma’ab, Hanieh Sate Farshi, (…)
Iran – Leading journalist released but banned from working
Reporters Without Borders hails leading human rights activist and journalist Emadoldin Baghi’s release on 21 June but deplores the fact that he is banned from any kind of political or journalistic activity for the next four years. He was originally given a six-year prison sentence but it was reduced to one year last July. He had been held since 5 December 2010, when he complied with a summons to present himself to Tehran’s Evin prison (http://en.rsf.org/iran-emadoldin-ba…). Baghi began a (…)
Iran – Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2011)
17.06.2011 – Release, jail sentence and closure Reporters Without Borders has learned that Reza Rafiee Foroshani, a freelance journalist who worked for Iranian and international news media, was released on 12 June. Arrested on 26 June 2009 in Tehran, he was included in one of the Stalinist-style mass trials held in Tehran in August 2009 and was given a seven-year jail sentence, plus a five-year suspended sentence, on a spying charge. The jail sentence was reduced to three years last year. (…)
Iran – Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2011)
17.06.2011 – Release, jail sentence and closure Reporters Without Borders has learned that Reza Rafiee Foroshani, a freelance journalist who worked for Iranian and international news media, was released on 12 June. Arrested on 26 June 2009 in Tehran, he was included in one of the Stalinist-style mass trials held in Tehran in August 2009 and was given a seven-year jail sentence, plus a five-year suspended sentence, on a spying charge. The jail sentence was reduced to three years last year. (…)
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Iran – Iranian authorities “responsible for journalist’s death”
Reporters Without Borders today deplored the death in prison of journalist and writer Hoda Saber and accused the Iranian regime of being responsible He was taken to hospital with chest pains on 10 June and died of a heart attack a few hours later. The Evin prison authorities did not inform his family, who learned about his death two days later on the Internet. “We send our deepest condolences to his family and to all Iranian journalists,” said Reporters Without Border secretary-general (…)
Iran, Droga: Sette impiccati per il traffico
Nuova ondata di condanne a morte eseguite nella Repubblica Islamica. Secondo i media iraniani, sette uomini sono stati impiccati per traffico di droga nei penitenziari di Kerman, nel sud, Qazvin, ad ovest e Tonekabon, nel nord. Altre quattro persone accusate di stupro sono salite sul patibolo a Yazd, nell’Iran centrale, tre delle quali sono state [...]
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Iran, Droga: Tre trafficanti impiccati
Tre trafficanti di droga sono stati impiccati nel carcere di Orumieh, nel nordovest dell’Iran. Lo ha riferito l’agenzia d’informazione ‘Irna’, precisando che la sentenza contro i tre narcotrafficanti era stata confermata dalla Corte Suprema. Nelle ultime settimane si sono intensificate le impiccagioni nella Repubblica Islamica. Ciò è dovuto in particolare a un inasprimento della pena [...]
