On 6 July, 22 of the 25 jailed employees of Kalameh Sabz, the newspaper owned by Mir Hossein Mousavi were released. Three editorial staff are still in jail. Read more here
Iran: Mousavi newspaper journalists freed
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Iran: journalist freed
Anglo-Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis has been released from prison in Tehran. Athanasiadis is believed to have been the only non-Iranian to be held in the crackdown on post-election protests. Read more here
Maziar Bahari must be freed
Iranian-Canadian journalist's supposed "confession" suggests serious human rights abuses Iranian news agency Fars reported yesterday that Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari had admitted that his coverage of the Iranian election was biased in...
Photographer on hunger strike in Iraq
Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam has been on hunger strike for four days protesting his continued detainment by US forces in Iraq. Media watchdogs have urged Iraq's government to end harassment and intimidation of journalists and are pushing for...
Bahrain: newspaper ban lifted
The 21 June ban of Arabic Gulf News has been lifted. The Bahrain newspaper came under fire after criticising the Iranian leadership. Read more Read more here
Iran: academics held
Seventy university professors who met with opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi in Tehran have been arrested. Read more here
Jordan: poet sentenced for “slandering Islam”
Poet Islam Samhan has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined of 10,000 dinars (approx. US$14,100), after he used verses from the Quran in his poetry. Read more here
Staff of Mousavi newspaper arrested
Twenty-five members of the staff of Kalemeh Sabz, a newspaper owned by presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, have been arrested in Tehran. Read more here
Habitat uses Iran election tags to generate Twitter hits
Furniture company Habitats Twitter account used hashtags such as #Iranelection and #Mousavi in order to ensure the company’s messages regarding their products would be seen by a mass audience. Twitter members use hashtags to help them narrow their...
Egyptian writer prevented from travelling
Released political prisoner and writer Abd Al-Monem Monieb was detained in Cairo airport for 45 minutes by state security officers. Their actions prohibited him from travelling to Lebanon where he was due to publicise his book on Islam in Egypt....