Iran - Journalists going missing in Iran, those based abroad getting death threats

Mir Hossein Mousavi, owner of the suspended newspaper Kalameh Sabaz, his wife, author Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karoubi, owner of the suspended Etemad Melli, and his wife have been arrested. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the Tehran public prosecutor, told a press conference on 27 February that the two newspaper owners were under house arrest and barred from using telephones or the Internet. He did not say where they were being held or why they had been arrested. Some reports claim the two (...)

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