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Iran Reduces Jail Terms Of 2 Women Journalists Who Covered Mahsa Amini's Death
Iranian courts have reduced jail terms for two female journalists charged with collaborating with the United States, their lawyers told reformist newspapers on Sunday.
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UN Sounds Alarm About Diminishing Press Freedom
Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the globe, with journalists continually harassed, jailed and killed, UN officials and media outlets warned Tuesday.
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Iran Pushes Global List Of Jailed Journalists To Record High
Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday.
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US Court Orders Iran To Pay $180 Million To Journalist Over Detention
A US court on Friday ordered the government of Iran to pay nearly $180 million in damages to an Iranian-American journalist who was jailed by Tehran on espionage charges in 2014.
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Iran Journalist Gets 12-Year Jail Term After 'Insulting Judiciary'
Iranian journalist and women's rights activist Hengameh Shahidi has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on unspecified charges, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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Iran Journalist Gets 10 Years In Jail For "Insulting" Imam On Twitter
An Iranian journalist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for "insulting" an imam from the ninth century on Twitter, his lawyer told local media on Monday.
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No Date Yet for Verdict in US Reporter Spy Trial: Iran
The trial in Iran of jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian on spying charges has yet to end, Tehran's justice department chief said Sunday, days after the journalist's lawyer said proceedings were over.
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John Kerry Slams Iran Over Reports of US Journalist Charged
US Secretary of State John Kerry said today he was "deeply disappointed" by reports that a US journalist jailed in Iran had been charged and denied bail more than four months after his arrest.
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Dissident Iranian journalist is jailed in a continued crackdown
A day after Iran's president defended his country's record in permitting criticism, opposition Web sites reported on Wednesday that the second dissident Iranian journalist in less than a week had been incarcerated on charges including "propaganda against the state." The Web sites said the journalist, Emadeddin Baghi, had been ordered jailed for six...
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Freed US reporter leaves Iran
US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, who was freed from an Iranian jail this week, left the Islamic republic on Friday for an unknown destination.
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Jailed US scribe to be freed in Iran
An American journalist jailed in Iran will be freed Monday and can leave the country immediately.
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Lawyer defends jailed US reporter at Iran court
A lawyer for a jailed American journalist in Iran said he was optimistic that an appeals court will reduce her eight-year prison sentence.
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Iran says US journalist tried behind closed doors
A jailed American journalist charged by Iran with espionage stood trial behind closed doors.
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Iran Reduces Jail Terms Of 2 Women Journalists Who Covered Mahsa Amini's Death
Iranian courts have reduced jail terms for two female journalists charged with collaborating with the United States, their lawyers told reformist newspapers on Sunday.
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UN Sounds Alarm About Diminishing Press Freedom
Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the globe, with journalists continually harassed, jailed and killed, UN officials and media outlets warned Tuesday.
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Iran Pushes Global List Of Jailed Journalists To Record High
Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday.
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US Court Orders Iran To Pay $180 Million To Journalist Over Detention
A US court on Friday ordered the government of Iran to pay nearly $180 million in damages to an Iranian-American journalist who was jailed by Tehran on espionage charges in 2014.
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Iran Journalist Gets 12-Year Jail Term After 'Insulting Judiciary'
Iranian journalist and women's rights activist Hengameh Shahidi has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on unspecified charges, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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Iran Journalist Gets 10 Years In Jail For "Insulting" Imam On Twitter
An Iranian journalist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for "insulting" an imam from the ninth century on Twitter, his lawyer told local media on Monday.
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No Date Yet for Verdict in US Reporter Spy Trial: Iran
The trial in Iran of jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian on spying charges has yet to end, Tehran's justice department chief said Sunday, days after the journalist's lawyer said proceedings were over.
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John Kerry Slams Iran Over Reports of US Journalist Charged
US Secretary of State John Kerry said today he was "deeply disappointed" by reports that a US journalist jailed in Iran had been charged and denied bail more than four months after his arrest.
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Dissident Iranian journalist is jailed in a continued crackdown
A day after Iran's president defended his country's record in permitting criticism, opposition Web sites reported on Wednesday that the second dissident Iranian journalist in less than a week had been incarcerated on charges including "propaganda against the state." The Web sites said the journalist, Emadeddin Baghi, had been ordered jailed for six...
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Freed US reporter leaves Iran
US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, who was freed from an Iranian jail this week, left the Islamic republic on Friday for an unknown destination.
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Jailed US scribe to be freed in Iran
An American journalist jailed in Iran will be freed Monday and can leave the country immediately.
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Lawyer defends jailed US reporter at Iran court
A lawyer for a jailed American journalist in Iran said he was optimistic that an appeals court will reduce her eight-year prison sentence.
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Iran says US journalist tried behind closed doors
A jailed American journalist charged by Iran with espionage stood trial behind closed doors.
