Foreign journalists arrested as Iran restricts reports on opposition


	Foreign journalists arrested as Iran restricts reports on opposition

infidel70

11-7-2009 7:28 AM

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It said several journalists had been sentenced to as much as six years in prison after “Stalinist” show trials.

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Three journalists, one of them foreign, were arrested at Wednesday’s mass 
demonstrations in Tehran by a regime determined to suppress all independent 
sources of information.
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Farhad Poulaid, an Iranian working for the French wire service AFP, was 
detained as he rode through central Tehran on a motorbike and nothing has 
been heard from him since. Nafiseh Zareh Kohan, an Iranian who writes for 
reformist publications, and Niels Krosgaard, 31, a Danish journalism 
student, were also held, the International Federation of Journalists said 
yesterday.
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The arrests are part of a sustained crackdown on all independent media, 
foreign and domestic, in the five months since President Ahmadinejad’s hotly 
disputed re-election triggered the most serious unrest in the Islamic 
Republic’s 30-year history.
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