Source: http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.7991838
See the original link for Sidsel Wold’s own photos of daily life in Iran.
- Michael Jackson's death devastated the green spring
We are sitting at an undisclosed location in Tehran, three young Iranian men in their twenties and me.
- Michael Jackson's death devastated the green spring, Babak sighs. A quiet nodding goes around the table in the café's darkest corner.
ABOUT NAMING AND use of pictures
Fearing trouble with the regime the three men in this article only wanted to reveal their first names. They did not want to be photographed.
The owner of the cafe also would not risk trouble by openly allowing Western journalists to do interviews in his premises.
The atmosphere is strained.
All three have just told me that they would prefer to leave Iran. That they see no future here now.
Babak has visited the British Consulate for two years to ask for a residence permit, but in vain.
Want the neighbour to rebel
- I just want to leave this country. I am desperately trying to get away from here, says Babak, who hopes to take a PhD abroad.
Borna would prefer to go to Europe or Canada, but not forever. He hopes that Iran will undergo changes while he lives abroad.
The others laugh. For here we are at the core. Everyone seems to want the neighbour to rebel.
Are dissatisfied Iranians not ready to go out into the streets themselves, as the Syrians do? I ask.
This was how the uprising after the controversial counting after the presidential election in 2009 ended.
When the Basij militia began using sharp ammunition on people in the streets, the protesters stayed at home.
In Iran, I'm trying to figure out what had become of the green movement and where all the students who participated are now.
Some have travelled abroad. Others continue with their lives and hope for the best.
Several are sitting in cafes like these young men, being depressed.
Not enough to lose yet
All shake their heads over the blood bath in Syria. It is cruel.
- Assad cannot survive this. Eventually, all dictators will fall, Borna thinks.
- We Iranians are somewhere between Syria and Europe, says Sina.
- We do not have enough to lose yet, so we do not demonstrate with our lives on the stake, as the Syrians are doing. But we're not as civilized as the Europeans, he says.
- Do you dream of a good future in Iran? I ask.
- Maam, I am just hopeless just now, Babak repeats sorrowful.
- We all live in social depression, says the three.
- Have no Mandela
One of them is an accountant, the other a musician, the third an engineer.
They are in their prime of life and an example of the brain drain that has afflicted the Islamic Republic for decades, but that reached a new peak after the 2009 elections.
But change will come, they believe. The collective depression here cannot continue as it is now.
Sina does not want a revolution, just reforms. Babak believes it is appropriate to impose sanctions on Iran in order to put pressure on the mullah regime.
- But the sanctions also affect the people. It has become dangerous to fly now. Iranian aircrafts cannot find spare parts, and are often affected by technical errors.
- I wish Russia and China did not support us. It would be better to be completely isolated, and force a crisis that would lead to a change.
- If sanctions were imposed like in South Africa? Asks Sina as to vent the thought.
- No, we have no Mandela. Our hope for change and reform has no leader.
- A warning for the regime
What do the three think about the Arab spring?
- The Arab uprising is a warning to the Iranian regime. Sina says.
- The Arab spring does not help me, Babak interrupts.
- Why did the West not help us in 2009, when the uprising began here? We were at it, but then Michael Jackson destroyed everything. When he died the world press went out of its wits and broadcasted nothing else. The world forgot Iran altogether. Why did Michael Jackson die just when we finally stood up against the regime? Borna sighs.
They look down at the table. Sina lights another cigarette.
We have to go. It is clear that neither the guests in the cafe nor the owner feel comfortable with the presence of foreign journalists.
When we walked out it was like a sigh of relief closed the door behind us.
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9 February 2012
Darkness at noon – A report from Iran by NRK’s correspondent Sidsel Wold
Source http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.7987844
(See the original page for Sidsel Wold’s own photos from Iran, as I do not want to copy them here.)
Sidsel Wold was met with fear, rejection and blocked websites in Iran
NRK's Sidsel Wold just returned to Tehran, two and a half years since her last visit. She found a quite different and gloomier place, where everyone was afraid and no one opened their mouth.
(See the original page for Sidsel Wold’s own photos from Iran, as I do not want to copy them here.)
Sidsel Wold was met with fear, rejection and blocked websites in Iran
NRK's Sidsel Wold just returned to Tehran, two and a half years since her last visit. She found a quite different and gloomier place, where everyone was afraid and no one opened their mouth.
With the shawl pulled over her head NRK’s former Middle East correspondent went back to Tehran to report from one of the world’s most combustible areas. There she met closed doors, frightened people and blocked websites.
In this article Sidsel Wold shares her experiences from six days in Tehran with the readers.
Wold’s title for her story from Iran, "Darkness at noon", is not randomly chosen.
It is the same title as Arthur Koestler's famous novel from 1940, where he reveals the horrors of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.
Sidsel Wold was a tour guide in the Soviet Union when she was young, and she draws this comparison when she describes today's Iran.
Finally I was going to Iran again!
After two years of visits and tea drinking in the Iranian Embassy in Oslo, I was able to collect my prize: The press visa.
In this article Sidsel Wold shares her experiences from six days in Tehran with the readers.
Wold’s title for her story from Iran, "Darkness at noon", is not randomly chosen.
It is the same title as Arthur Koestler's famous novel from 1940, where he reveals the horrors of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.
Sidsel Wold was a tour guide in the Soviet Union when she was young, and she draws this comparison when she describes today's Iran.
Darkness at noon
Finally I was going to Iran again!
After two years of visits and tea drinking in the Iranian Embassy in Oslo, I was able to collect my prize: The press visa.
But in the weeks prior to departure I strongly felt that Tehran had become a different and gloomier place.
The last time I was in this metropolis of 14 million people was during the elections in 2009.
In the days before the polling stations opened, a green Iranian spring blossomed. People were out in the streets screaming and shouting out their opinion. Most of them demanded reforms.
The Opposition’s presidential candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, were likely to do well.
But when the votes were counted, another man was the election’s big winner: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Closed the ancient Persia
In Tehran's streets the news was met with shock and disappointment. And much anger.
It was not long before hundreds of thousands protested in the streets against an election result they believed to be manipulated.
After several days of mass demonstrations, the Basij militia went from beating with clubs, to shooting with sharp ammunition. The Basijs are paramilitary hooligans who are paid by the regime to beat up citizens who create unrest.
Several people were shot and killed in broad daylight. One was the 16-year-old Neda, the icon of the regime's brutal use of force against young Iranians.
Right after Iran's disputed election count, the regime closed the country to foreign news agencies.
Since then there has hardly been any Western journalists there. Darkness descended on the ancient Persia.
Pulled the shawl over my hair
To return to Iran was a dream. The Iranians are a great and proud people that we should listen to.
In my opinion, the demonization of the entire Iran because of the acrimonious dispute with the West is unfortunate.
So I pulled the shawl over my hair, and began to work to show other sides of the country.
Need permission to film
I was happy when I finally could walk through the door to Ivansahars premises.
Ivansahar is a media agency we have worked with several times in the past, because journalists cannot work here quite the way we want to.
We need permission to film, and Ivansahar also sets up interview appointments for us.
One month prior to departure, I had sent my booking request list:
Something was wrong
But when I came into the office I realized that something was wrong. The lights were out, only one employee was left.
They had fired their three employees, and the boss had left Iran. Since no press people get a visa to Iran anymore, they had partially closed down the office.
But now Ivansahars sole employee had only NRK to deal with, so I was optimistic.
NRK blocked – Yr open
In the small hotel Karoon internet was quite OK, except that NRK, Dagbladet, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and BBC was blocked.
I could read Tehran Times, Iran's Press TV, Aftenposten, VG-nett and yr.no. *
And with Yahoo, I could send home both radio material and mail.
- Western Zionist media
Then the days went by without any interview appointments.
Several times a day I called Ivansahar. Had we been given permission? Appointments?
- No, unfortunately. Or: Noone answers. Or: The answer is no.
The family of a liquidated nuclear physicist replied that they do not speak to Western Zionist media.
Could only film our own cakes
Day after day we moved at a snail's pace, caught in Tehran's eternal traffic jams.
Since the appointments did not materialize, we had to try and ask for filming permission ourselves, in shops, cafes etc.
When we finally arrived, we were often given the same answer: No, you cannot film here.
A cafe owner said that yes indeed, we could film at his place later in the day when there were more people around the tables.
But when we came in with the camera, the mood quickly changed. The cafe guests became restless, they looked anxiously around as if a storm was approaching.
The only thing we were able to film there was our own slices of cake and coffee cups.
Voices disappeared and silenced
Before 2009 we had at least two, often three to four appointments each day. We filmed in cafes, in shopping centres, and could interview people without problems.
Before 2009 an interpreter took me to the regime-critical journalist Issa Saharkiz, the reformists Ali Abtahi and the dissident Ibrahim Yazdi.
- Why do you take me to these critics? I asked the interpreter, who obviously was engaged by Iran's ministry of culture and Islamic guidance.
- Because it is important to show the range of opinions here, so you get the whole picture, said the interpreter.
Another exciting source was Sayed Hussein Adeli, former ambassador of Iran in the United Kingdom.
Now all four of them were out of reach. Their voices are silenced and vanished.
Saharkiz is in prison. Abtahi was imprisoned, then turned up on TV 15-20 kilos lighter admitting that he had been wrong.
Ibrahim Yazdi, aged 81, was imprisoned after 2009, and later put under house arrest. Adeli has not given interviews in two years, I was told. All four participated in the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Yazdi was even with Ayatollah Khomeini on the historic flight from Paris to Tehran after the Shah's fall.
Now they are all gagged. The revolution seems to eat its own children.
The Street, The Grand Bazaar and the ski slopes
During the week we only received three permissions:
Became nervous myself
We also had some luck. One day, an Iranian television reporter came over to us on the street.
His team filmed us, as if he wanted to show the viewers of the Iranian state TV channel IRIB that, yes, here is full press freedom for western journalists.
But when he wanted to interview me, I quickly said that we had to interview him instead.
Of course, smiled the confident, smiling man; of course, we could interview him.
I was nervous at the thought of being interviewed by Iranian TV. Because I did not want to say what I really mean.
And I realized why so few would talk to NRK ...
Memories from the USSR
When I was young I worked as a tour guide in the USSR. Memories from that time resurfaced now.
Like the Soviets, the Iranians are also afraid to speak now. Some wrote on a sheet of paper instead of talking for fear of spies or microphones.
It was like a clammy hand had tightened its grip on the entire community.
Everyone wants U.S. dollars
And then there was the money riyal. During the Soviet era the rubel was a non-convertible currency.
Everyone wanted only the great Satan’s money: The dollar.
At the Imam Khomeini International Airport, I experienced the same thing:
I wanted to exchange my Iranian riyals, which are not convertible in the West any more.
Because of inflation the Iranian currency had so many zeros that I no longer understand any of them, and I wanted to exchange them. But no, the banks at the airport did not want them back.
- Why do you not want your own money, I asked annoyed.
- Only those with Iranian passports can exchange riyal, was the answer.
The Western world is boycotting the Iranian central bank. So maybe this is tit for tat...
* Dagbladet, Aftenposten and VG are Norwegian newspapers. YR.no is the popular Norwegian weather forecast-site.
The last time I was in this metropolis of 14 million people was during the elections in 2009.
In the days before the polling stations opened, a green Iranian spring blossomed. People were out in the streets screaming and shouting out their opinion. Most of them demanded reforms.
The Opposition’s presidential candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, were likely to do well.
But when the votes were counted, another man was the election’s big winner: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Closed the ancient Persia
In Tehran's streets the news was met with shock and disappointment. And much anger.
It was not long before hundreds of thousands protested in the streets against an election result they believed to be manipulated.
After several days of mass demonstrations, the Basij militia went from beating with clubs, to shooting with sharp ammunition. The Basijs are paramilitary hooligans who are paid by the regime to beat up citizens who create unrest.
Several people were shot and killed in broad daylight. One was the 16-year-old Neda, the icon of the regime's brutal use of force against young Iranians.
Right after Iran's disputed election count, the regime closed the country to foreign news agencies.
Since then there has hardly been any Western journalists there. Darkness descended on the ancient Persia.
Pulled the shawl over my hair
To return to Iran was a dream. The Iranians are a great and proud people that we should listen to.
In my opinion, the demonization of the entire Iran because of the acrimonious dispute with the West is unfortunate.
So I pulled the shawl over my hair, and began to work to show other sides of the country.
Need permission to film
I was happy when I finally could walk through the door to Ivansahars premises.
Ivansahar is a media agency we have worked with several times in the past, because journalists cannot work here quite the way we want to.
We need permission to film, and Ivansahar also sets up interview appointments for us.
One month prior to departure, I had sent my booking request list:
- Film in a bank, and talk to the bank manager about the currency crisis.
- Talk with a family about how the sanctions affect their daily lives.
- Talk to nuclear physicists about how the liquidation of their peers has influenced them.
- Talk to MPs about possible sanctions against the EU.
- Visit friends of former prime minister Mossadeq who was overthrown by CIA and British intelligence in 1953.
- Interview analysts and economists.
- If possible: talk to people from the green movement ...?
- Take pictures in slalom slopes.
Something was wrong
But when I came into the office I realized that something was wrong. The lights were out, only one employee was left.
They had fired their three employees, and the boss had left Iran. Since no press people get a visa to Iran anymore, they had partially closed down the office.
But now Ivansahars sole employee had only NRK to deal with, so I was optimistic.
NRK blocked – Yr open
In the small hotel Karoon internet was quite OK, except that NRK, Dagbladet, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and BBC was blocked.
I could read Tehran Times, Iran's Press TV, Aftenposten, VG-nett and yr.no. *
And with Yahoo, I could send home both radio material and mail.
- Western Zionist media
Then the days went by without any interview appointments.
Several times a day I called Ivansahar. Had we been given permission? Appointments?
- No, unfortunately. Or: Noone answers. Or: The answer is no.
The family of a liquidated nuclear physicist replied that they do not speak to Western Zionist media.
Could only film our own cakes
Day after day we moved at a snail's pace, caught in Tehran's eternal traffic jams.
Since the appointments did not materialize, we had to try and ask for filming permission ourselves, in shops, cafes etc.
When we finally arrived, we were often given the same answer: No, you cannot film here.
A cafe owner said that yes indeed, we could film at his place later in the day when there were more people around the tables.
But when we came in with the camera, the mood quickly changed. The cafe guests became restless, they looked anxiously around as if a storm was approaching.
The only thing we were able to film there was our own slices of cake and coffee cups.
Voices disappeared and silenced
Before 2009 we had at least two, often three to four appointments each day. We filmed in cafes, in shopping centres, and could interview people without problems.
Before 2009 an interpreter took me to the regime-critical journalist Issa Saharkiz, the reformists Ali Abtahi and the dissident Ibrahim Yazdi.
- Why do you take me to these critics? I asked the interpreter, who obviously was engaged by Iran's ministry of culture and Islamic guidance.
- Because it is important to show the range of opinions here, so you get the whole picture, said the interpreter.
Another exciting source was Sayed Hussein Adeli, former ambassador of Iran in the United Kingdom.
Now all four of them were out of reach. Their voices are silenced and vanished.
Saharkiz is in prison. Abtahi was imprisoned, then turned up on TV 15-20 kilos lighter admitting that he had been wrong.
Ibrahim Yazdi, aged 81, was imprisoned after 2009, and later put under house arrest. Adeli has not given interviews in two years, I was told. All four participated in the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Yazdi was even with Ayatollah Khomeini on the historic flight from Paris to Tehran after the Shah's fall.
Now they are all gagged. The revolution seems to eat its own children.
The Street, The Grand Bazaar and the ski slopes
During the week we only received three permissions:
- To film in the street and in the bazaar.
- To film in the slopes.
- To interview the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
Became nervous myself
We also had some luck. One day, an Iranian television reporter came over to us on the street.
His team filmed us, as if he wanted to show the viewers of the Iranian state TV channel IRIB that, yes, here is full press freedom for western journalists.
But when he wanted to interview me, I quickly said that we had to interview him instead.
Of course, smiled the confident, smiling man; of course, we could interview him.
I was nervous at the thought of being interviewed by Iranian TV. Because I did not want to say what I really mean.
And I realized why so few would talk to NRK ...
Memories from the USSR
When I was young I worked as a tour guide in the USSR. Memories from that time resurfaced now.
Like the Soviets, the Iranians are also afraid to speak now. Some wrote on a sheet of paper instead of talking for fear of spies or microphones.
It was like a clammy hand had tightened its grip on the entire community.
Everyone wants U.S. dollars
And then there was the money riyal. During the Soviet era the rubel was a non-convertible currency.
Everyone wanted only the great Satan’s money: The dollar.
At the Imam Khomeini International Airport, I experienced the same thing:
I wanted to exchange my Iranian riyals, which are not convertible in the West any more.
Because of inflation the Iranian currency had so many zeros that I no longer understand any of them, and I wanted to exchange them. But no, the banks at the airport did not want them back.
- Why do you not want your own money, I asked annoyed.
- Only those with Iranian passports can exchange riyal, was the answer.
The Western world is boycotting the Iranian central bank. So maybe this is tit for tat...
* Dagbladet, Aftenposten and VG are Norwegian newspapers. YR.no is the popular Norwegian weather forecast-site.
24 April 2010
List of 101 journalists jailed in Iran
Source: Enduring America blog, posted by Scott Lucas.
The following list has been compiled by EA's German Bureau. It does not include the staff of Kalemeh, who were imprisoned last summer (most were subsequently released). Some of the journlists named in this list may have been freed on bail.
1. Adnan Hassanpour, Aso
Arrested: 25 January 2007
2. Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, Payam-e Mardom
Arrested on: 1 July 2007
3. Mojtaba Lotfi, a freelance journalist
Arrested: 8 October 2008
4. Hossein Derakhshan, a freelance journalist, Blogger
Arrested: November 2008
5. Nader Karimi Jooni, Jahan-e-Sanat, Sharq, Gozaresh, Fekr and Siasat-e-Rooz
Arrested in: December 2008
6 Ahmad Zaid-Abadi, a freelance journalist
Arrested on: June 2009
7. Omid Salimi, Jahan e Jehan
Arrested: 14 June 2009
8. Kayvan Samimi, Nameh
Arrested: 14 June 2009
Bail: 16 March 2010
Return to prison: 20 March 2010
9. Saeed Laylaz, Sarmayeh
Arrested: 17 June 2009
10. Bahman Ahmadi Amoui, freelance journalist
Arrested: 19 June 2009
Sentence: 5 years imprisonment confirmed
11. Isa Saharkhiz, freelance journalist
Arrested: 3 July 2009
12. Massoud Bastani, Farhikhtegan Jomhoriyat
Arrested: 5 July 2009
13. Marjan Abdollahian, Hamshahri
Arrested: 9 July 2009
14. Saeed Matin-Pour, Yar Pag Mouj Bidari
Arrested: 12 July 2009
15. Reza Nourbakhsh, Farhikhtegan
Arrested: 4 August 2009
16. Mohammad Hossein Sohrabi Rad, Saham News
Arrested: September 2009
17. Mohammad Davari, Saham News
Arrested: 5 September 2009
18. Javad Mahzadeh, freelance journalist
Arrested: 22 October 2009
19th Mazdak Ali Nazari, Nasim Haraz Monthly and Journalism for Peace
Arrested: November 2009
20. Sassan Aghaee, freelance journalist
Arrested: 22 November 2009
Bail: 28 March 2010
21. Saeed Jalalifar, Committee of Human Rights Reporter
Arrested: 2 December 2009
22. Kouhyar Goudarzi, Committee of Human Rights Reporters
Arrested: 20 December 2009
23. Shiva Nazar Ahari, Committee of Human Rights Reporters
Arrested: 20 December 2009
24. Mohammad Nourizad, freelance journalist, Keyhan
Arrested: 20 December 2009
Sentence: 3 1/2 years imprisonment and 50 lashes
25. Emaduddin Baghi, a freelance journalist
Arrested: 23 December 2009
26 Alireza Beheshti Shirazi, Kalameh Sabz
Arrested: 23 December 2009
27. Arvin Sedaghat Kish, Farhang va Ahang
Arrested: 27 December 2009
28. Khalil Darmanki, Asr Azadegan, Shargh, Etemad-e Melli
Arrested: 27 December 2009
29. Mostafa Izadi, Etemad-e Melli
Arrested: 28 December 2009
30. Badressadat Mofidi, Iranian Journalists Association
Arrested: 29 December 2009
31. Omid Montazeri, freelance journalist
Arrested: 30 December 2009
32. Rouzbeh Karimi, Kargozaran
Arrested: 2 January 2010
33. Yadollah Eslami, Jonbesh-e-Rah-e-Sabz
Arrested: 4 January 2010
34. Mostafa Dehghan, freelance journalist
Arrested: 8 January 2010
35. Mehraneh Atashi, freelance photojournalist, artist
Arrested: 11 January 2010
36. Lili Farhadpour, freelance journalist
Arrested: 21 January 2010
Released: 13 March 2010
37. Nilofar Laripour, Chelcheragh
Arrested: 1 February 2010
38. Ali Mohammad Eslampour, publisher Návay Vaght, Kermanshah
Arrest: 3 February 2010
39. Jamileh Darolshafaie, Etemaad
Arrested: 5 February 2010
40. Na’imeh Doostdar, Jaam-e Jam, Hamshahri
Arrested: 6 February 2010
41. Hamid Mafi, Farhang-e Ashti, Etemad-e Melli, Kargozaran
Arrested: 9 February 2010
42. Mohammad Ghaznavian, freelance journalist, human rights activist
Arrested: 9 February 2010
43. Fouad Sadeghi, chief editor of online magazine Ayande News
Arrested: 10 February 2010
44. Hengameh Shahidi, journalist and women’s rights activist
Re-arrested: 25 February 2010
45. Naghi Ahmadi Azar, five years imprisonment for “espionage against Armenia”
46. Ali Anjam-Rouz, in Gilan
Arrest date unknown
47. Behzad Mehrani, journalist, blogger and human rights activist
Arrested: 3 March 2010
Bail: 16 April 2010
48. Nasour Naghipour, Blogger, Khuzestan
Arrested: 2 March 2010
49. Abolfazl Abedini Nasr, weekly newspaper, Bahar Ahvaz
Arrested: 3 March 2010
50. Houtan Abolfathi, freelance journalist
Arrested: 15 February 2010
51. Ali Moazzami, Shargh
Arrested: 8 March 2010
52. Sadegh Javadi-Hessar, Toos
Arrested: December 2009 (Mashhad)
53. Kambiz Nouruzi, Head of Association of Iranian Journalists
Arrested: 28 June 2009
Sentenced to 1 year imprisonment
54. Mehdi Khazali, no data
Arrested: 29 June 2009
55. Satyar Emami, no data
Arrested: 11 July 2009
56. Reza Rafiee Foroshani, freelance journalist
Arrested: 26 June 2009
Sentenced: 5 years in prison for “espionage”
57. Pirhasanlou Ali, journalist and blogger “Alpar”
Arrested: 18 September 2009
58. Alireza Rajai, no data
Arrested: no further information
59. Amanollah Shojaie, reporters and bloggers, Bushehr
Arrested: no further information
60. Behzad Bashou, journalist and cartoonist
Arrested on: no further information
61. Esmail-Haqq parasternal, Farhikhtegan
Arrested on: no further information
62. Farhad Sharfai, in Khorramabad
Arrested: no further information
63. Fariborz Soroush, freelance journalist in Karaj
Arrested on: no further information
64. Farshad Azizi, Atrak, Mashhad
Arrested: no further information
65. Fereydoun Amozadeh, publisher Chelcheragh
Arrested: no further information
66. Massoud Lavasani Saeed, journalist and blogger
Arrested: 26 September 2009
Sentenced: six years imprisonment, prohibited from journalism for 10 years
67. Ehsan Mehrabi, Farhikhtegan
Arrested: Unknown
68. Babak Bordbar, 25, photojournalist Aks-e Fars, Shiraz
Arrest: 26 December 2009
69. Mohammad Pour Abdollah, freelance journalist
Arrest: 13 February 2010
70. Morteza Moradpour, Yazligh
Arrested: 22 May 2009
71. Hamzeh Karami, Website Jomhooriyat
Arrested: 19 June 2009
72. Zeynab Kazemkhah, ISNA
Arrested: 7 February 2010
73. Ali Malihi, Etemaad, Irandokht, Shahrvand-e Emruz and Mehrnameh
Arrested: 9 February 2010
74. Mojtaba Gahestooni, freelance journalist
Arrested: 5 March 2010
75. Sousan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand, blogger, Kurdistan
Arrested: 11 March 2010
76. Morteza Kazemian, Jonbesh-e Rah-e Sabz
Arrested: 29 December 2009
77. Nooshin Jafari, Etemaad
Arrest: 3 February 2010
78. Naeemeh Doostdar, Jam-e Jam
Arrested: 6 February 2010
79. Somayeh Momeni, Nasim-e Bidari
Arrested: 7 February 2010
80. Rahim Gholami, freelance journalist, Ardebil
Arrested: 11 April 2008
Sentenced: one year in prison, 28 October 2009
81. Hassan Maadikhah
Arrested: No information
82. Khalil Mir Ashrafi, journalist, TV producer
Arrested: No information
83. Kayvan Farzin, Farhang-e ahang
Arrested: No information
84. Kourosh Javan, photojournalist
Arrested: No information
85. Mansoureh Shojai, freelance journalist, feminist websites
Arrested: No information
86. Mashallah Heidarzadeh, journalist from Bushehr
Arrested: No information
87. Mehdi Gilani, Atrak, Mashhad
Arrested: No information
88. Mehdi Hosseinzadeh:
Arrested: No information
89. Mehdi Yazdani Khorram, Etemad-e Melli, Shargh, Hammihan, Kargozaran
Arrested: December 2009
91. Mehrdad Rahimi, freelance journalist and blogger
Arrested: No information
91. Mirhamid Hassanzadeh, editor of Ghalam News Website
Arrested: No information
92. Mohammad Javad Saberi
Arrested: No information
93. Mohammadreza Yazdanpanah, Shargh, Kargozaran, Hammihan andFarhikhtegan
Arrest: No information
94. Hassan Assadi Zeydabadi, blogger, student, human rights activist
Arrested: No information
95. Mohammadreza Zohdi, publisher, Arya
Arrest: No information
96. Rouhollah Shahsavar, in Mashhad
Arrested: No information
97. Rokhsareh Ghaem-Magham, journalist and documentary filmmaker
Arrested: No information
98. Saeed Allah-Behdashti
Arrested: No information
99. Saeed Movahedi, photojournalist
Arrested No information
100. Sayed Amar Kalantari, Ayandeh Website
Arrested: No information
101. Tahereh Riahi, editor of Jahan-e Eghtesad
Arrested: No information
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