(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter sent on 21 June 1999 to the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ataollah Mohajarani, RSF protested the arrest of the chief editor of the reformist weekly “Hoviyat-é-Khich”, Hechmatollah Tabarzadi. Tabarzadi was arrested on 17 June, after he was summoned before a revolutionary court in Tehran. On 16 June, Hossein […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter sent on 21 June 1999 to the Minister of Culture and
Islamic Guidance Ataollah Mohajarani, RSF protested the arrest of the chief
editor of the reformist weekly “Hoviyat-é-Khich”, Hechmatollah Tabarzadi.
Tabarzadi was arrested on 17 June, after he was summoned before a
revolutionary court in Tehran. On 16 June, Hossein Kachani, director of the
weekly, was also arrested, after Mr Djafari, the deputy minister of Culture
and Islamic Guidance responsible for the press, lodged a complaint against
“Hoviyat-é-Khich”, acccusing the paper of publishing “false and insulting
information.”
**Updates IFEX alert of 17 June 1999**
Worried by the legal harassment of journalists, RSF asked for “the charges
to be immediately dropped, and the two journalists released.” On 17 June,
RSF had sent a first letter protesting the arrest of Hossein Kachani.
