Iran: after the revolution
When Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Tehran on 1 February 1979, a brief period of freedom for Iranians came to an end. Yassamine Mather
looks at the development of the Islamic Republic’s suppression of dissent
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Iran: media crackdown continues
Bahman Totonchi, a journalist for the former Kurdish weekly Karfto, was arrested on 18 November following a house search by intelligence agents. The authorities had been harassing the journalist since the closure of Karfto on 29 December last year, when the weekly’s licence was withdrawn for good on the grounds of “failure to publish regularly”. It is not known where Totonchi is now being held.
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Iran: reformist weekly shut down
Shahvrand-e Emrouz (‘Today’s Citizen’), an Iranian reformist magazine, has been temporarily closed by the country’s press watchdog after the unauthorised publication of political content.
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The view from Iran
This week, four feminist bloggers were sentenced to imprisonment in Iran. In an exclusive preview of the new issue of Index on Censorhip (out next week), Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi discusses the prospects for free expression in her country.
Read Shirin Ebadi’s ‘View From Iran’ here (pdf)