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IRAN: More arrests reported as government continues crackdown on online journalists
ALERT - IRAN 13 May 2009 More arrests reported as government continues crackdown on onlinejournalists SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris (RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is concerned to learn of the arrestsof two more Iranian journalists in the past two weeks, bringing the totalnumber of journalists and bloggers currently held in Iran to 15, includingtwo women. "Although Roxana Saberi was freed on 11 May many other journalists havebeen arrested in the past two weeks with little being said about it,"Reporters Without Borders said. "The Iranian authorities have quietlyincreased the number of detained journalists." Massoud Loqman, the editor of the arts and culture website Rouznamak (http://rouznamak.blogfa.com/ ) and a member of the Association of IranianJournalists, was arrested in the centre of Tehran on 1 May. He was thevictim of police violence at the time of his arrest. On the evening of 1May, intelligence ministry officials searched his home without a warrant. He was one of a total of six journalists and cyber-dissidents to bearrested on 1 May in Tehran. The others were Alireza Saghafi, editor of themagazine "Rah Ayandeh", journalist Kaveh Mozafari, who writes for twowebsites FeministSchool ( http://www.feministschool.com/ ) and Wechange,also known as Change for Equality ( http://www.4equality.info/ ), JelvehJavaheri, who also writes for FeministSchool, Amir Yaghoubali, who writesfor the daily "Etemad" ( http://www.etemaad.ir/ ) and Wechange, and NikzadZangane, who keeps a blog ( http://www.nik-nevesht.blogspot.com/ ). Onlythe two women's rights activists, Javaheri and Zangane, have been able tocontact their families since their arrest. The other newly-reported detention is that of Sajad Khaksari, a journalistwith the weekly "Galam Moalem" ("Teacher's Pen"), who was arrested on 26April for photographing a demonstration by teachers. A judge initiallyordered his release on bail but then reversed his ruling. Reporters Without Borders also condemns the fact that two journalists whowork with Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's Human Rights Defenders Centre- Nargues Mohamadi and Soraya Azizpanah, editor of the Kurdish magazine"Rasan" - were prevented from leaving Iran on 8 May to attend a conferencein Guatemala on women's rights. For further information contact Soazig Dollet, RSF, 47, rue Vivienne, 75002Paris, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84 78, fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail:middle-east@rsf.org, Internet: http://www.rsf.org/ The information contained in this alert is the sole responsibility of RSF.In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please credit RSF.
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IRAN: More arrests reported as government continues crackdown on online journalists
ALERT - IRAN 13 May 2009 More arrests reported as government continues crackdown on onlinejournalists SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris (RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is concerned to learn of the arrestsof two more Iranian journalists in the past two weeks, bringing the totalnumber of journalists and bloggers currently held in Iran to 15, includingtwo women. "Although Roxana Saberi was freed on 11 May many other journalists havebeen arrested in the past two weeks with little being said about it,"Reporters Without Borders said. "The Iranian authorities have quietlyincreased the number of detained journalists." Massoud Loqman, the editor of the arts and culture website Rouznamak (http://rouznamak.blogfa.com/ ) and a member of the Association of IranianJournalists, was arrested in the centre of Tehran on 1 May. He was thevictim of police violence at the time of his arrest. On the evening of 1May, intelligence ministry officials searched his home without a warrant. He was one of a total of six journalists and cyber-dissidents to bearrested on 1 May in Tehran. The others were Alireza Saghafi, editor of themagazine "Rah Ayandeh", journalist Kaveh Mozafari, who writes for twowebsites FeministSchool ( http://www.feministschool.com/ ) and Wechange,also known as Change for Equality ( http://www.4equality.info/ ), JelvehJavaheri, who also writes for FeministSchool, Amir Yaghoubali, who writesfor the daily "Etemad" ( http://www.etemaad.ir/ ) and Wechange, and NikzadZangane, who keeps a blog ( http://www.nik-nevesht.blogspot.com/ ). Onlythe two women's rights activists, Javaheri and Zangane, have been able tocontact their families since their arrest. The other newly-reported detention is that of Sajad Khaksari, a journalistwith the weekly "Galam Moalem" ("Teacher's Pen"), who was arrested on 26April for photographing a demonstration by teachers. A judge initiallyordered his release on bail but then reversed his ruling. Reporters Without Borders also condemns the fact that two journalists whowork with Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's Human Rights Defenders Centre- Nargues Mohamadi and Soraya Azizpanah, editor of the Kurdish magazine"Rasan" - were prevented from leaving Iran on 8 May to attend a conferencein Guatemala on women's rights. For further information contact Soazig Dollet, RSF, 47, rue Vivienne, 75002Paris, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84 78, fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail:middle-east@rsf.org, Internet: http://www.rsf.org/ The information contained in this alert is the sole responsibility of RSF.In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please credit RSF.
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