(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Shahroudi, RSF protested the arrest of Narghues Mohammadi. “The arrests continue in press circles,” said Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general. “The silence of the reformists, and especially of President Khatami, is likely to encourage further arrests,” he added. According to information collected by RSF, […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Shahroudi, RSF protested the arrest of Narghues Mohammadi. “The arrests continue in press circles,” said Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general. “The silence of the reformists, and especially of President Khatami, is likely to encourage further arrests,” he added.
According to information collected by RSF, on 28 August 2001, Narghues Mohammadi, a journalist at the weekly “Peyam Ajar”, banned since April 2000, was arrested after appearing before the Revolutionary Court in Tehran as a “witness”. Very involved in the movement for the release of political prisoners in Iran, Narghues Mohammadi is a member of the editing committtee of “Peyam Ajar” and of the Association of Journalists in Iran, the only trade union, close to President Khatami. She is the wife of Taghi Rahmani, journalist at “Omid-é-Zangan”, in jail since 11 March after a raid at the home of Mohammed Bastehnahar – a prominent dissident -, where nearly thirty people were gathered (see IFEX alerts of 12 April and 15 March 2001).
With twenty-three media professionals behind bars, including some in very poor health, Iran is the biggest jail in the world for journalists.
