Ehsan Pirbornash News Today

For nearly 200 years, Iranian journalists have fought for survival in a country that has treated them as enemies - but now this pressure has become "backbreaking"

Numerous journalists have been silenced and witnesses to brutality fear the consequences of speaking out.

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Small-scale protests and acts of civil disobedience continue in Iran, while a younger generation hopes another wave of nationwide demonstrations will occur soon

Among those detained are two who helped expose the case of Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly violating the dress code for women

“Alireza Akbari was sentenced to death for harming the country’s internal and external security by passing on intelligence,” says media report.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the 18-year sentence (10 years in prison plus eight years suspended) that an Iranian journalist received on 10 January, in what is the harshest sentence passed on any journalist since protests about Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody began four months ago. He and all of the other journalists imprisoned in Iran must be freed at once, RSF says.

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