Repression and arrests of journalists prelude to elections in Iran

More than ten days after the arrest “Farzad Pourmoradi” by security forces there has been no contact or reason for this inhumane practice.

On 13 January 1394, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Armoured personal agents,farzad pourmorad “Farzad Pourmoradi” Many media partners, including “Kermanshah Post” and “Ode to time” at his home in the city of Kermanshah After inspecting and seizing computers, manuscripts and his tools, were arrested.

 

On the same day that the online One of the sites near the Iranian judiciary, citing a judicial source said, “The Spring” in charge of “propaganda against the regime and publishing materials that harm the Islamic Republic of Iran”, was banned .

 

Once again summoned and detained journalists and media censorship in Iran and Iranian officials preventive repression, summoned and arrested journalists and the seizure of the media are welcome to elections.

 

Farzad Pourmoradi 38 years old and married with two children, 8 and 1-year-old named Atosa and Ryast, was arrested nearly two years ago for a short period due to the lack of proof of the allegations was released.

 

The journalist Shortly before the arrest, on cable launched Raven news channel, who was informed about the status of the province and elections. From the day after the launch of the channel, media close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards conservative attacks and threats against journalists begun and accused him of “subversion and division”.

 

Defenders of Human Rights brings to the world with much regret that Iran has imprisoned 37 journalists and citizen media activists is one of the world’s five biggest prisons in the world ranking of press freedom in 2015, out of 180 countries the category is 173.

 

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