(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has welcomed the release of Internet journalist Babak Ghafori Azar. Azar was released on 21 September 2004 after spending two weeks in detention for allegedly writing for the news website Rouydad. The organisation remarked, however, that two other Internet journalists who were arrested around the same time as Azar are still being […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has welcomed the release of Internet journalist Babak Ghafori Azar. Azar was released on 21 September 2004 after spending two weeks in detention for allegedly writing for the news website Rouydad. The organisation remarked, however, that two other Internet journalists who were arrested around the same time as Azar are still being held.
RSF has urged bloggers and other Internet users to send e-mail messages of support to the detained journalists. The organisation said the messages, which senders may compose in their own words, should be sent via [email protected]. They will subsequently be forwarded to the families of the imprisoned journalists and posted on the Farsi-language section of RSF’s website: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=256
The community of Iranian bloggers has been organising for several days to show its opposition to the censorship of Emrooz, Rouydad and Baamdad, three websites that support Iran’s main reformist party. Dozens of Farsi-language blog pages have been renamed “Emrooz” and have posted articles from the Emrooz site.