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Flood emergency triggers crackdown on journalists in Iran
Around 30 journalists and citizen-journalists have been summoned, questioned or arrested in the past few weeks.
Around 30 journalists and citizen-journalists have been summoned, questioned or arrested in the past few weeks.
Fearless and outspoken, Nasrin Sotoudeh is one of Iran's most well-known human rights defenders. Harassed by the authorities for years, Sotoudeh was recently sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.
Sotoudeh will also receive 148 lashes for charges including 'propaganda against the state'.
No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009.
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
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