On the 20th anniversary of a wave of murders of Iranian journalists and intellectuals, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for justice to be finally rendered by prosecuting the perpetrators and instigators of these crimes, many of whom hold senior public office today in Iran.
No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed today on the basis of information in a leaked Iranian justice department digital file.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Iranian regime’s inhuman and degrading treatment of imprisoned journalists. At least three – Narges Mohammadi, Soheil Arabi and Sanaz Allahyari – are currently being denied medical care and subjected to shocking sanitary conditions although extremely ill.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the latest censorship attempt in Iran, in the form of a proposed law currently before the Iranian parliament that would ban US and British journalists from entering Iran and would ban the Iranian media from reporting anything that the US and British media publish. RSF urges Iran’s parliamentarians to reject the entire bill.
An Iranian court has ordered a complete ban on Telegram, Iran’s most popular instant messaging service, in a decision that has further tightened the Islamic Republic’s grip on the flow of news and information as well as severely disrupting Internet traffic.