Reporters Without Borders Report on 38 Years of ‘Press Suppression’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Reporters Without Borders has released a report on the occasion of the anniversary of Iran’s 1357 revolution, criticizing 38 years of “press suppression” by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to the report by the international organization, the Islamic Republic of Iran, with 29 imprisoned journalists and citizen reporters, is one of the 5 major world prisons for media activists, and throughout all these years has pursued “suppression of journalists” through various methods.
Based on this report, following “official executions” in the early years of the establishment, the Islamic Republic has targeted the elimination of intellectuals and journalists through “abductions and extrajudicial killings” in the 1970s (Farsi calendar). Ibrahim Zalzadeh, Majid Sharif, Mohammad Mokhtari, Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, and Pirouz Davani are among the victims of this period.
Later in the 1980s, journalists such as Zahra Kazemi and Hadi Saber, and bloggers such as Omidrezaa Mirsiahefi and Sattar Beheshti, lost their lives due to mistreatment and torture in Iranian prisons.
According to Reporters Without Borders, Iran ranks 169th out of 180 countries in the world press freedom index.
Source: Voice of America
