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RSF - Detailed roundup of censorship since June 12th - 0 views

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IranJune12th Rigged Election censorship

shared by Frank Gallagher on 15 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Four interior ministry officials have been arrested for given results that were different from those announced by Ahmadinejad’s allies.
    • Frank Gallagher
      Frank Gallagher on 15 Jun 09
       
      Not sure where that information came from
  • Four of the leading pro-reform newspapers have been closed or prevented from criticising the official election results
  • A member of a TV crew working for the Italian station RAI and a Reuters reporter were beaten by police in the capital. A BBC TV crew was threatened by police at one point, but demonstrators chased the police away. The correspondents of the German TV stations ARD and ZDF were forbidden to leave their hotel on 13 June.
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  • wo Dutch TV journalists working for Nederland 2 were arrested and expelled. Reporter Yolanda Alvarez of the Spanish television station TVE was deported together with her crew today.
    • Frank Gallagher
      Frank Gallagher on 15 Jun 09
       
      As I understand it, journalists are being harassed, and their Iranian cameramen arrested. Cameras and tapes have also been confisacated (John Simpson - Tehran).
  • Eleven Iranian journalists have been arrested since 12 Jun
  • There is no word of about 10 other journalists who have either been arrested or gone into hiding.
  • The security services have moved into the offices of newspapers where they are reading articles and censoring content.
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