A high-profile journalist who has criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s economic strategies has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, news reports said Tuesday. Bahman Ahmadi Amoui “has been sentenced to seven years and four months in jail plus 34 lashes,” the reformist Kaleme and Rahesabz websites said, according to AFP. Amoui was […]

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahar was released on bail from Tehran’s Evin prison on Saturday, 17 October upon payment of approximately $300,000 (US) bail. Bahar, a well-known documentary filmmaker and reporter for Newsweek, was held in prison without charges for 118 days in solitary confinement under accusation of spying. He was jailed on 21 June during the […]

On the 9th of September, 2009, the International Press Institute (IPI) believes it is only fitting to call attention to the nine unresolved cases in its Justice Denied campaign, which highlights the unlawful imprisonment of journalists around the world and the impunity from which the murderers of journalists all too often benefit. Journalists are routinely […]

The International Press Institute today called on the Iranian government to stop jailing reporters and bloggers and to lift any restrictions on their freedom to move and report freely. In a letter to the Iranian ambassador to Austria, IPI Director David Dadge said, “The Iranian people and the world have a right to information as […]