Iran has shut down three daily newspapers critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, according to reports by state-run news agencies. While no r...
Washington Post | Jon Meacham | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
Maziar Bahari is a Newsweek reporter, a documentary filmmaker, a playwright, author, artist and, since June 21, a prisoner being held in Iran without ...
Guardian | Oliver Luft | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
Iran's media crackdown since protests over the disputed election earlier this month means more journalists are in jail there than in any other country...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.22.2009 | Chicago
Journalist Roxana Saberi, released from prison in Iran last month, has been honored by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. At grad...
Andy Plesser | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
Earlier this week, authorities in Iran blocked YouTube along with several other sites and mobile networks. For YouTube, the crackdown has been highly effective, with traffic dropping by 90 percent.
AP | FARYL URY | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — An American journalist who spent four months in an Iranian prison was greeted Friday afternoon with cheers and hugs from friends as...
Global Voices | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Supporters of two leading reformist presidential candidates, former prime minister Mir Hussein Mousavi and former parliament speaker, Mehdi Karroubi a...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — An American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. is vowing to remain on a hunger strike until she is freed...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran may reconsider an eight-year jail term for an American journalist during her appeal, the judiciary spokesman said Tuesday in...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's judiciary ordered a full investigation Monday into the case of an American journalist imprisoned for allegedly spying for ...
AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the U.S. should be allowed to offer a full defen...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and ANNA JOHNSON | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Tuesday its national security court put an American journalist on trial behind closed doors on allegations she spied fo...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home