Iran - Call for end to hostage-taking after Iran frees two Azerbaijani journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is relieved by yesterday's announcement that Farid Huseyn and Shahriyar Hajizade, two Azerbaijani journalists and poets who had been detained arbitrarily in Iran for the past four months on spying charges, have finally been released. "We are delighted that Huseyn and Hajizade are finally free as their ordeal had dragged on too long," Reporters Without Borders said. "The outcome, which has more of the hallmarks of a Cold War prisoner swap than a sober judicial (...)

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