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Annual report on violation of religious rights in Iran |
Ground Report, May 10, 2016 - Following Tuesday’s World Press Freedom Day 2016 the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) released a statement saying “the regime’s draconian measures against news organizations have become more aggressive.”
It stated that “not only does the regime severely clamp down on journalists for reporting on subjects sensitive to the mullahs’, it even goes so far as arresting and torturing to death dissident bloggers.”
One of these documented cases of torture is of blogger Sattar Beheshti. A laborer and also blogger Mr. Beheshti was ‘tortured so seriously that he eventually passed away’ at the hands of the Iranian regime in 2012.
And 4 years on, the clerical regime continues to be suspicious of the journalistic right to freedom of expression but also freedom of association. Just 7 days leading up to World Press Freedom Day, the NCRI reported that ‘the Iran regime sentenced 4 reporters to [a collective tally of] 27 years in jail.’
Journalist Afarin Chitsaz was sentenced to 10 years behind bars; also Ehsan Mazandarini was given seven years; while Davood Assadi and Ehsan (Saman) Safarzaie were each handed down a five year sentence.more
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