At least seven journalists were among those attacked when Iranian guards and intelligence officials raided a section of Tehran’s Evin Prison holding political prisoners on Thursday, according to news websites and human rights groups. The unprecedented violent attack left dozens of prisoners injured, some hospitalized, and others transferred to solitary confinement, according to news […]
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CPJ: Attacks on the press
Iran remains one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists. – Iranians voice hope for new era with election of President Hassan Rouhani. Iran remained one of the most censored countries in the world. In the lead-up to the June 2013 presidential elections, then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government pre-emptively arrested journalists, banned publications, harassed family […]
CPJ: Turkey, Iran, China Lead World In Jailing Journalists
Turkey, Iran, and China are the top jailers of journalists, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) media watchdog. More than half of all the imprisoned reporters, bloggers, and editors in the world are in those three countries, the CPJ said. Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan also made the top 10 […]
CPJ joins call for passage of Iran resolution in UN
By Jason Stern/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Research Associate The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined two dozen human rights organizations in signing a letter calling on all member states of the U.N. General Assembly Third Committee to vote in favor Tuesday of resolution A/C.3/68/L.57 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of […]
CPJ urges Iranian authorities to release journalists
New York, April 18, 2013–The cases of an Iranian blogger imprisoned for seven months without trial and a prominent freelance journalist whose health has deteriorated in prison illustrate the ongoing abuses being perpetrated by Iranian authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Kaveh Taheri, a blogger who has been held at […]
CPJ Says Mideast Bad, Iran ‘Worst’ Journalist Jailer
The Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) says the number of journalists jailed around the world has increased to its highest level since the mid-1990s and Iran is “the world’s worst jailer.”