Middle East
Publisher: Al Jazeera
8 Dec 2014
Iran charges Washington Post journalist
Iran has charged a Washington Post reporter who has been detained in the country for nearly five months, the paper said, citing sources familiar with the case. It said the nature of the charges levelled at Jason Rezaian, the newspaper's bureau chief in Tehran, were not immediately clear as he appeared in court on Saturday.
Publisher: Huffington Post
4 Dec 2014
Iran Extends Detention Of Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian By Two Months
Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian will be held in Iran for two more months, the Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday. Rezaian, who was arrested in July along with his wife and two photojournalists, has been held for some four months without charge. The others were released soon after, and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, was freed on bail after 60 days.
Publisher: Aljazeera
6 Oct 2014
Iran releases arrested journalist on bail
Tehran has released on bail an Iranian journalist who was arrested more than two months ago, while her husband, a fellow reporter who was arrested at the same, remains in jail. Yeganeh Salehi, a foreign correspondent for the UAE's English-language newspaper the National, and Jason Rezaian, the Iran correspondent for the Washington Times newspaper, were arrested on July 22. On Monday, both newspapers quoted Salehi's brother-in-law as saying that she was freed on bail late last week.
Publisher: HRANA
18 Sep 2014
Eighty-one days in solitary confinement without trial -Saba Azarpeyk
Saba Azarpeyk, a Reformist Journalist who was arrested 81 days ago, is still kept at solitary confinement with no clear vision of possible trail date. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) in Iran, Saba Azarpeyk was arrested on Wednesday morning, May 28th, 2014 by security forces and was transferred to an undisclosed location. Despite the fact that she has been in solitary confinement for the past 81 days , her fate is still undecided and there is still no news of a possible trail date and explanation of charges.
Publisher: Economist
14 Sep 2014
Jon Stewart and Iran: Highlighting the lot of journalists
Jon Stewart's movie Rosewater tells the story of Maziar Bahari, Iranina Candaian Journalist imprisoned in the aftermath of the 2009 disputed elections. The country's clerical rulers say the protests in the poll's aftermath were an attempt at sedition led by America and Israel. Hundreds of activists remain in jail.
Publisher: NYTimes
7 Aug 2014
Jason Rezaian of Washington Post and Wife Still Held
Jason Rezaian knew he was being watched. A man on a motorcycle had been following him and his wife for weeks, his colleagues said. The tail was so blatant that Mr. Rezaian, The Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, had even managed to take a picture of the license plate. Like many foreign journalists accredited by the Iranian authorities, Mr. Rezaian had grown painfully accustomed to being under constant suspicion.
Publisher: NYTimes
1 Aug 2014
Rounding Up Journalists in Iran
For all the hints of a thaw in Iran s hard-line behavior since President Hassan Rouhani took office, the government s oppression of working journalists has continued unabated most recently with the egregious arrest of Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post s correspondent in Tehran, and his wife and fellow journalist, Yeganeh Salehi. The two were taken for questioning on July 22 by security police who confiscated their laptops and other property, with Iranian justice officials later commenting darkly about being "vigilant towards all kinds of enemies activities." The couple has not been heard from since.
Publisher: NYTimes
24 Jul 2014
Washington Post Reporter Apparently Detained in Iran
The Washington Post s correspondent in Iran is believed to have been detained this week, the newspaper said Thursday. The correspondent, Jason Rezaian, was reported to have been taken into custody Tuesday evening along with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, also a journalist, and two other people, The Post s foreign editor, Douglas Jehl, said in a statement. "We are deeply troubled by this news," Mr. Jehl said, "and are concerned for the welfare of Jason, Yeganeh and two others said to have been detained with them."
Publisher: International Campaign for Human Rights
3 Jul 2014
Veteran Journalist Charged with Propaganda Against State
Shamsolvaezin wrote on his Facebook page: "I did not accept the charges. I said propaganda against someone needs to have both material and non-material elements, both of which I lack. I am a journalist and criticizing things within the framework of the law is a natural tool of my profession,". He added that the deed to his mother's home was submitted to the court as collateral for his bail.
Publisher: International Campaign for Human Rights
14 Jun 2014
Journalist Put on Trial for Propaganda Against State
Publisher: The Guardian
29 May 2014
Journalist Saba Azarpeik arrested in Iran
Azarpeik has been arrested before, including in January 2013 when security officials raided at least four newspapers and arrested several journalists in advance of the presidential elections that gave Hassan Rouhani a victory. Azarpeik has been critical of the state's treatment of journalists and opposition figures and has repeatedly grilled officials and politicians in her interviews. She has been particularly under pressure for her comments and reports on her Facebook page. She particularly covered the case of the Iranian blogger, Sattar Beheshti, whose death in custody brought embarrassment for the authorities.
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
29 Apr 2014
Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns the pro-reform newspaper Ebtekar's suspension by the Tehran prosecutor s office for media and culture on 26 April, two days after it reported that the head of the Iranian prison system, Golamhossien Esmaili, had been fired. Ebtekar editor Mohamad Ali Vakili said that "according to the letter from the prosecutor's office, the newspaper has been suspended under article 6 of the press law for publishing false information."
Publisher: CSMonitor
19 Mar 2014
Iranian newspapers drop their guard
The fate of newspapers is one window into Iran's larger political stand-off. Mr. Rouhani, who defeated a raft of conservative rivals last June, wants more open publishing. Fundamentalists reject that and want to deny Rouhani any victory. "They want to send a message to people who support change that Rouhani coming to office will change nothing," says Mr. Mohammadi. "Critics of [Rouhani] know if they frustrate the people, they can easily defeat the government... They want to prevent the government from sending the message to the people that change is coming."
Publisher: The Guardian
26 Feb 2014
Iranian activist Mohammad Nurizad attacked and arrested, but not silenced
Nurizad was a staunch supporter of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a published journalist in the ultra conservative state newspaper, Keyhan. But the events during the aftermath of the disputed 2009 presidential elections, in which tens of protesters were killed and hundreds of others arrested in the biggest unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution, gave the veteran journalist a change of heart.
Publisher: The Guardian
22 Feb 2014
A leap forward for Iranian journalism nipped in the bud
In the inaugural issue of Aseman, a centrist daily newspaper launched one week ago, the editors wondered at the political change that allowed such a newspaper to operate in Iran s thorny media landscape. A year ago, no one would have thought it possible for us to become newspaper journalists, and behold, they wrote. Now, as Aseman s publisher Abbas Bozorgmehr spends the 20-21 February Iranian weekend in Evin prison following a revocation of the newspaper s license, that transformation seems more toothless than its readers had imagined.