Mass crackdown on Iranian Journalists

[democratic]

Crackdown on Internet Journalists

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041013/wr_nm/media_iran_arrests_dc_2

Wed Oct 13, 9:46 AM ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have arrested at least six Internet journalists and webloggers in recent days, colleagues and relatives said on Wednesday, in a further blow to limited press freedoms in the Islamic state.

News-based Internet sites and online journals known as Weblogs have flourished in Iran where the disproportionately youthful population often turns to the Internet for information and entertainment.

The hardline judiciary's muzzling of print media through the closure of some 100 publications in the last four years also meant the Internet became a haven for liberal journalists seeking a place to write.

Journalists and relatives named the six arrested journalists and Webloggers as Shahram Rafizadeh, Babak Ghafouri-Azar, Rouzbeh Amir-Ebrahimi, Hanif Mazroui, Omid Memarian and Mostafa Derayati.

"We do not know where they are being held. We heard they have been kept in solitary confinement," said a relative of one of the detainees, who asked not to be named.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Great. New excuse for * to invade Iran to give them freedom of the press.

[democratic]

2. ..

No need to invade, just moral support of which you seem to give mass support to the Iranian government. Seems a problem within the Democratic party and the reason why mass amounts of Iranian-Americans are supporting the Republicans this election, great job idiot.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Please note underlying sarcasm in my response. * doesn't like

freedom of the press here or in Iran. It's just a reason to get what he (read PNAC) wants.

[Djinn]

5. who's giving

moral support to the Iranian government??? WTF are you on about with that?

[Aidoneus]

6. Like you, perhaps?

Trying to get a regime change live thread going here may be a bit more difficult..

[gottaB]

4. Hossein Derakhshan's anti-censorship blog

http://stop.censoring.us

[TheKingfish]

7. Thank God

Nothing like this would ever happen in the USA. err... hmm... nevermind...