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Isa Saharkhiz

Pro-reform journalist sentenced to three years in jail

AFP - IRAN has sentenced to three years in jail a pro-reform journalist accused of insulting supreme guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and banned two reformist newspapers, an opposition website reported on Monday. Issa Saharkhiz, who was accused of 'insulting the supreme guide and (publishing) propaganda against the regime, was also banned from working for three years and from leaving Iran for one year, Sahamnews website reported. Saharkhiz was arrested during the protest movement that erupted in Iran following the contested re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009. Meanwhile the authorities banned the pro-reform daily Andishe No (New Thinking) and the weekly Bahar Zanjan (The Spring of Zanjan), named after the northern Iranian town Zanjan, the website said.

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Rea

Appalling !

by Rea on Tue Sep 28, 2010 04:23 PM PDT

It has come to a point where people don't take notice any more. Sort of "they asked for it in 1979".

So, one journalist more or less. So sad!


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Benyamin

Another one bites the dust...

by Benyamin on Tue Sep 28, 2010 03:48 PM PDT

Is it me? or does this guy look like jesus indeed?


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Bavafa

Depressing it is, all this thinking

by Bavafa on Tue Sep 28, 2010 09:42 AM PDT

but it pales compared to what these brave souls go thru. May one day our home land be free of all these injustice and crimes that is perpetuated to its citizens by a moronic regime.

Those in jails and graves are the heroes of our mother land.

Mehrdad


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i am a bahai too

" . . .then they attack you, then you win"

by i am a bahai too on Tue Sep 28, 2010 09:37 AM PDT

I like what Gandhi said: "First they ignore youThen they laugh at youThen they attack you

Then you win"

 

 

on a level that the condemning IRI can't begin to comprehend, every free-thinking, freedom loving person that they put into jail, that they ban, humiliate or torture brings the inevitable outcvome just that much closer . . .

we will win, the shackles of ignorance will not hold.

Iran will be free. there are too many heroic people in Iran for any other outcome to be possible.  don't lose heart. as you taught us Jahanshah, we must continue to speak out. surely Issa knows this:

good will prevail.


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P_T_B_A

Thinking

by P_T_B_A on Tue Sep 28, 2010 09:15 AM PDT

I am thinking all  the time.  Please tell us what else we can do beside thinking that would get rid of these criminals, JJJ.


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Jahanshah Javid

Another day, another jailed

by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Sep 28, 2010 03:22 AM PDT

Think about this man and his "crime". Think about how has is and will suffer. Think about all the women killed or in jail. Suffering because all they did was think, believe or say something against injustice.

Think about what has happened to us, to our country, to our human dignity.

Think about tomorrow's news. Who's next?


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