JournoIsNotACrime

Iran targets, arrests & tortures its journalists and bloggers but Journalism Is Not A Crime. Join the campaign at #journalismisnotacrime to show your support.

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For years, countless Iranian singers, pieces of music in live performances, female musicians and even music-themed broadcasts by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting have been scrubbed in #Iran for no apparent reason.

https://t.co/2nY6ylR1sW #censorship

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Mohammad Pourmand worked his entire life as an air conditioner repairman in #Iran until he was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards and sentenced to 22 months in prison for a string of tweets criticizing the government. #Iran

https://t.co/nKUTvUha6L #accountability

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Our new data-driven project, Visualizing Censorship in #Iran, allows observers to track and observe patterns in the Islamic Republic of #Iran's decades-long crackdown on press freedom inside the country.

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https://t.co/6CjjASaOgG #censorship

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#Iran now ranks 174 out of 180 countries in the world in Reporters Without Borders’ latest Press Freedom Index with crackdowns, arrests, censorship and execution of journalists. #WorldPressFreedomDay

FULL REPORT: https://t.co/J7j0S2UXjF #censorship

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A draft bill recently put before parliament by 41 Iranian MPs would see #US and #UK reporters banned from entering #Iran, as well as a ban imposed on disseminating American or British media content inside Iran.

https://t.co/vS336kS8S7 #censorship

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Two screenwriters have been sent to prison in #Iran: Arash Ganji and Navid Mihandoust, for 11 years and 3 years respectively.

The Writers' Association of Iran called the sentences "baseless."

https://t.co/fl5775xVOg #censorship

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In an interview, the lawyer for satirist Kiumars Marzban, confirmed the young humorist had been released from prison and is determined not to give up writing.

https://t.co/lJCl0dzbg4 #censorship

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Kiumars Marzban, an Iranian writer and satirist who was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in August 2018 and sentenced to six years in prison, has been released from Evin Prison after two years and six months behind bars.

https://t.co/UFWtgHpsNc #censorship

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Iranian journalist #MohammadMosaed is in danger of being deported to #Iran from #Turkey. He was detained as he tried to escape and a prison sentence for bypassing an Internet shutdown in Nov 2019 during a violent crackdown on nationwide protests.
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An award-winning Iranian investigative journalist has been arrested by Turkish border police on attempting to flee the country, sparking panic among freedom of expression advocates who fear for Mosaed’s safety if he is returned to #Iran.

https://t.co/nTr9jT9cLA #censorship

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Rozita Ghobadi, host of Asr-e Khanevadeh (“Family Time”) program for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, appears to have been taken off air — because a guest suggested that, confined to their homes due to coronavirus, people could “dance.”

https://t.co/scTZSocJgd #censorship

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Arash Ganji, a writer and translator and the secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers' Association, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court. #Iran

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https://t.co/bbcxRWdeO3

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Dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam has been executed in Iran after he was kidnapped and forcibly returned to the country last year.

https://t.co/5d3dFznqPC #censorship

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The Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam was sentenced to death on June 30, 2020 for treason and espionage. Just a few days before the Iranian Supreme Court confirmed his sentence, IranWire spoke to Zam’s Paris-based lawyer:

https://t.co/NruRP9u5P9

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A freelance reporter — Mohammad Mosaed — facing a five-year prison sentence in #Iran has been recognized in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual International Press Freedom Awards.

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https://t.co/Y0NX1oY1zd #censorship

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Hessamoddin Ashena, adviser to President Rouhani, has been convicted for two “political” tweets — but spared jail, unlike many journalists, activists, lawyers and dissidents also prosecuted for “political” crimes.

https://t.co/JCJeQtJxdb #censorship https://t.co/RyWPAjtNbF

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More and more stories have emerged of journalists, human rights defenders and creatives being subjected to a new, insidious mode of punishment in #Iran — to have them committed and subjected to fresh humiliation.

#censorship https://t.co/BCkwcQoZoQ

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Civil activist Somayeh Ramooz has been arrested in Turkey while trying to leave for a safer country, according to reports received by IranWire.

https://t.co/Bb3PCJTBJP #censorship #Iran #Turkey

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Over the past week Iranians have taken to Twitter en masse to share their personal accounts of what happened to them during the nationwide protests of November 2019. #Which_Aban

https://t.co/9iVSVF4paZ #censorship #truth https://t.co/Eeq3tNfkqV

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Just two months after the state-sponsored execution of Shirazi wrestling champion Navid Afkari, another athlete has been arrested in Iran and could face the death penalty – this time over an Instagram post.

https://t.co/eLCPKwGLp6