Iran - Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2012)

Reporters without borders

05.04.2012- More journalists and netizens arrested, sentenced to jail terms Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that more journalists and netizens have been arrested or have been given long jail sentences in the past few days. Mehran Faraji, a journalist with the newspaper Shargh and the now-closed newspaper Etemad Melli, was arrested on 3 April in order to serve a six-month jail sentence on a charge go anti-government propaganda. Arrested on 12 December 2010 and then freed on (...)

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