An Iranian semi-official news agency says a court has lifted a ban on the Reuters news agency, allowing it to restart its operations in Iran. The report on May 11 by the Iranian Students’ News Agency quotes Deputy Culture Minister Mohammad Jafar Mohammad Zadeh as saying that the court’s verdict was delivered to an […]
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Censorship intensifying in run-up to June presidential election
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing harassment of news providers and yet another escalation in censorship. With just six weeks to go to a presidential election, the intelligence ministry has been summoning netizens and media editors to give them instructions on what they may and may not cover. At the same time, persecution of […]
Interview with Abdolreza Tajik, journalist: Coverage of disaster news in Iran is emotional
Iranian journalist Abdolreza Tajik is based in France. He is a winner of the Reporters without Borders’s 2010 press freedom award. He agreed with an interview with Khabarnegaran.info to elaborate how news coverage of disasters like hunger strikes, executions, death and legal sentences.
News of death brings heart attack to jailed journalist
Jailed journalist Mohammad Davari has suffered a heart attack in Evin Prison after hearing the news of his brother’s death.
No News of Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes’s Lawyers Situation After 26 Days
The families of Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyers who have been under detention almost 18 months, have no news about them for 26 days and their follow up has been inconclusive.
No News of Detained Gonabadi Dervish Situation After One Week
It is more than one week since Gonabadi dervish, Arash Shaltouki resident of Karaj arrested and there has been no information on his condition, accusations and reason for his arrest.
Urgent News: Loaders Ready to Demolish Gonabadi Dervishes Worship-place in Shahrekord, Surrounded by Security Forces
According to a report by Majzooban Noor, a few hours ago with the massive presence of special forces officers in front of worship-place of Gonabadi dervishes in Shahrekord, Mr. Mansour Saffarian and Mehdi Davari arrested.
Human Rights: Brief News
Opposition continues against removal of prisoners to hospital in prison uniforms
IOPHRI News: Uncontrolled attacks on Dervishes and the Lawyers
Press News: Recently, series of new attack has been originated by oppressors and exclusivists inside the country on dervishes and the charges raised at this time is “trying to topple the regime!” This false and deceptive plan has been presented with variety of methods on all the sites with affiliation to the office […]
Human Rights: Brief News
Four members of pro-reform Maqhreb newspaper staff arrested Amir Musa Kazemi, Editor-in-Chief, has said that he is still unaware of the charges against Managing Editor Mohammad Mehdi Emami-Naseri, who was arrested on October 1 and has been incarcerated in Evin prison.