Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to Tehran’s prosecutor calling for ‘fair investigations’ in the cases of journalist Roxana Saberi and blogger Hossein Derakhshan.
Derakhshan, also known as ‘Hoder’, is shortlisted for the Economist New Media Award at the 2009 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.
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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.
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The trial of journalist Roxana Saberi, accused of espionage, began in Tehran yesterday.
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The celebrated photographer and Pulitzer prize-winner Kaveh Golestan was one of the great defenders of free speech in Iran. He reflects in this essay, first published in 1994, on the fallout of the revolution
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