Iran - Reformist daily closed, state news agency chief jailed

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns manoeuvres orchestrated by members of the regime and media close to the Revolutionary Guards with the aim of intimidating newspapers and journalists. In the latest example, the reformist newspaper Shargh was suspended yesterday, its editor was detained for several hours and one of its cartoonists received a summons. And in a separate development, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, an advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and head of the state-owned news agency Irna, (...)

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