Media News - Friday, June 26, 2009
Arrest of entire Iranian newspaper staff condemned
Press freedom campaigning body Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of the entire staff of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi's newspaper, Kalemeh Sabz, as pressure on domestic journalists reporting the ongoing protests has intensified this week. Iranian authorities arrested 25 journalists and other staff at the newspaper owned by Mousavi earlier this week. RSF said that in total about 40 journalists in Iran had been arrested since 12 June and remained behind bars. The British Foreign Office has also confirmed it was aware of the case of one of the detained journalists with joint British and Greek nationality who was held in the crackdown at the end of last week. Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden, known as Jason Fowden, a Washington Times reporter, was arrested as he was attempting to leave the country, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA. RSF, the Paris-based journalists' charity, reported that Kalemeh Sabz's editor, Alireza Behshtipour Shirazi, confirmed the arrest of his whole staff on German radio. (The Guardian)
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