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
here (http://www NULL.telegraph NULL.co NULL.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5878430/Kremlin-gives-itself-powers-to-spy-on-all-Russian-mail NULL.html)
May 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
here (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8048012 NULL.stm)
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
here (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8005660 NULL.stm)
