Journalist and blogger Ahmad Reza Shiri (Persian) will have a permanent threat hanging over him as a result of the suspended sentence (used to silence journalists who bother the authorities) of three years in prison handed down by a court in the northern city of Mashhad, Reporters Without Borders said today. He was reportedly accused of writing articles in his blog calling for a boycott of last February’s legislative elections.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Iran: Blogger gets three-year suspended sentence
From Global Voices by Haitham Sabbah, January 20, 2006:
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