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Human Rights Watch: Iran arrests Journalistic Dissidents

This is the watchdog website Human Rights Watch, a world-wide human rights advocate and well known source for legitimate media regarding human rights violations. Here is a portion of the text from this report:

"The Iranian security forces’ November 21, 2011 raid on the offices of the official Iran newspaper and their attempt to arrest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s media adviser show the Iranian government’s extreme reaction to dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities detained about 40 staff members of the Iran daily while attempting to arrest Ali-Akbar Javanfekr, the head of the official Islamic Republic News Agency, who was conducting a news conference at the newspaper’s offices in Tehran. By evening, 30 of the 40 arrested staff members had been released, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported."

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http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/22/iran-crackdown-shows-intolerance-dissent


Added: Nov-28-2011 Occurred On: Nov-28-2011
By: fresnopete
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Iran
Tags: iran, no free speech, dissidents arrested, subversion of the press
Location: Iran (load item map)
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