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Iran’s New President and a Duplicitous Claim About Press Freedom July 02, 2021 Share share President of Iran "This branch (the judiciary) supports the freedom of the press. The judiciary sees the media as its colleagues and does not oppose fair criticism." False Before his election as Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi was head of the country’s judiciary. And earlier, during 1980s and 1990s, he was a deputy prosecutor in Tehran. In 1988, according to Human Rights Watch, Raisi played a role in the extrajudicial killings of thousands of political prisoners in Iran. Given his new, higher...

One Free Press Coalition (OFPC) has launched its monthly “10 Most Urgent” list of press freedom abuses around the world, focusing on cases of journalists who have faced harassment for publishing content online and on social media. Each month, the coalition, which comprises prominent news organisations and publishers, including Al Jazeera Media Network, brings to the public’s attention the 10 most urgent cases of journalists whose freedoms are being suppressed or who are seeking justice. Through the years, the campaign has highlighted what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian jou...

The investigative journalist Mohammad Mosaed fled Iran for Turkey. In his home country, he faced a draconian prison sentence. But, as Burcu Karakas reports from Istanbul, he isn't safe in Turkey either.

His clothes were frozen solid, he says, and he had an overwhelming urge to lie down and rest. He knew that if he slept, he would probably die. But he also knew he couldn't fight it forever.  He kept going, trying to find a place where, if he succumbed to the cold, someone would stumble across his body and tell his family what happened to him. Then he saw the Turkish border fence in the distance, and called the country's emergency line for help. Mosaed is now in hiding in Turkey, worried that Iranian authorities will follow him across the border and bring him home in handcuffs — or worse....

One Free Press Coalition's 10 Most Urgent list, February 2021 Yahoo News Staff Yahoo News, a member of the One Free Press Coalition, is publishing the group’s latest 10 Most Urgent list below to highlight the increasingly dangerous climate for journalists around the world. 1. Investigative reporter fleeing detention and fearing deportation In January, freelance journalist Mohammad Mosaed was detained by Turkish border police. He had fled Iran following a summons to begin serving his jail sentence in two days’ time. The sentence amounts to nearly five years in prison, a two...