Iran: Press crackdown continues as elections approach | Balochistan: Urdu-language TV stations suspended | UN: Philippines journalist defamation conviction a violation of free speech | Iran: BBC Persian staff face intimidation | South Korea: Photographer indicted over North Korea propaganda tweets | Egypt: Comic sentenced in “insulting Islam” case | China: Several Tibetan-language sites offline | Russia: opposition newspaper office destroyed in arson attack | Cuba: Journalist faces decades in prison | Sudan: Publisher stops press to protest censorship |