The Iranian authorities have charged two German reporters who work for the tabloid Bild am Sonntag with espionage, following their attempts to interview the lawyer and son of Sakineh Mohammadi Aschtiani, 43, whose 2006 death sentence by stoning prompted international outrage, reports say. The reporter and photojournalist were arrested on 10 October in Tabriz in […]

Mr. Ganji, you spent six years in an Iranian prison. Since your release four years ago, you have been living in exile. What have you been doing since you were freed? I am working as an activist and write a lot, every day in fact. Even in prison, I never stopped writing. I criticize the […]

Iranian journalist and dissident Akbar Ganji was today declared a World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI), in recognition of his decades of work defending freedom of speech and equal rights for all, in the face of continued harassment and imprisonment. Often called ‘Iran’s most prominent political dissident’, Ganji spent six years […]

As Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution on Thursday, amid reports of clashes between opposition supporters and police, the authorities attempted to disrupt the flow of information by preventing journalists from covering opposition activity, drastically slowing Internet service in Iran, and shutting down text messaging services, according to news reports. An […]