Reza Tajik, a high counsellor of the Iranian opposition’s leader Mir Hossein Mussavi, has been arrested.
Reza Tajik has been member of reformist Mohammed Khatami’s president. It has been announced by the website Kaleme a week after the Ashura demonstrations. 2 other Moussavi’s associates have been also arrested.
A journalist who was arrested back in June has been condemned to 6 years imprisoned.
via Iran:arrestato consigliere di Mussavi – Top News – ANSA.it.
The imprisoned journalist is:
Henghameh Shahidi was, on the other hand, sentenced to six years and 32 days in prison by the 26th chamber of Tehran’s revolutionary court. The journalist and head of the blog Paineveste was arrested on 29 June. She spent 50 days in solitary confinement in Section 209 of Evin prison before being freed on 2 November 2009 after posting bail of nine million tomans (about 6,300 euros).
Her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafai, said the journalist had been convicted of “acting against national security”, “activities against the regime in collaboration with the BBC”, which is seen as a “counter-revolutionary channel”. She was also found guilty of signing petitions against the regime, including the Iranian feminist ‘one million signatures’ campaign, as well as the campaign against stoning and another urging the UN Human Rights Council to take up a position on the state of human rights in Iran. She was also convicted of writing articles deemed “insulting” to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on her weblog. Mostafai added that he would be lodging an appeal.
More examples on the crackdown on press freedom in the link above.
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