Free Lantern » Journalist http://freelantern.com Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:39:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Iran hit new Record: 52 Journalists in prison http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/iran-hit-new-record-52-journalists-in-prison/ http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/iran-hit-new-record-52-journalists-in-prison/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:47 +0000 admin http://freelantern.com/?p=586 Committee to protect Journalists in its latest monthly survey announced that after the recent crackdown on media in February Iran has hit a new record in the world with 52 journalists in prison, a third of all those in jail around the world. After Iran China with 24 journalists in prison and Cuba with 22 have the second and biggest prison for journalists. Read the complete report here.

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The March 18 Movement was born out of a tragedy. On this day in 2009, Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger and journalist, died in Evin Prison in Tehran. The December before his death, he was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Omid Reza was the first blogger to die in prison and his death reveals that getting censored is far from the worst thing that can happen to a blogger. Join the March 18 Movement, created in his memory, to prevent this from happening to other bloggers in the future.
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