RSF concerned about Issa Saharkhiz, on hunger strike in prison

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the irresponsibility of Iran's highest authorities, who are refusing to release Issa Saharkhiz, a leading journalist held since early November and now on the fourth day of a hunger strike. The onetime editor of several reformist newspapers including the now closed monthly Aftab, Saharkhiz told his family on 12 February that he had begun a hunger strike in protest against the conditions in which he is being held. “You will come and collect me either (...)

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