July 22nd, 2009
The Kremlin have passed a decree allowing security services, including the FSB, Foreign Intelligence service, police and customs to obtain information from reading people’s mail without a warrant. Lev Ponomaryov, a leading human rights activist said to move showed the return of a “totalitarian regime”. Read more hereMay 14th, 2009
A lawyer for US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi says she was convicted of spying for the US partly because she had obtained a classified document, containting a confidential Iranian report on the US war in Iraq – but had not used it. Read more hereTags: Tags: censorship, iran, Iraq war, roxana saberi, spy,
April 18th, 2009
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of spying for the US by a Tehran court. Read more hereTags: Tags: iran, journalist, roxana saberi, spy,
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