Iran - Regime still targeting human rights lawyers and journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the recent arrests of Mohammad Seifzadeh, a human rights lawyer who has defended several imprisoned journalists, and Alireza Rajai, a journalist who writes for several reformist newspapers. A founder member of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's Centre for Human Rights Defenders, Seifzadeh managed to tell his family on 22 April that he had been arrested two weeks before by intelligence ministry officials in the northwestern city of Urmia and was still (...)

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