Wednesday Nov. 23,2005
News in brief
gooya news online reporting from "ISNA" :
Summoning of a Kurdish journalist !
Ms. "Soraiya Azizpanah" the managing official of " Rasan " publication, has been summoned to the public prosecutors office in the city of Marivan.
She was charged for " publishing lies" . Ms. Soraiya who is a member of the "Association in Support of Children Rights " in this regard have told to reporter from ISNA that : Tomorrow ( Thursday ) I have to be in division number one of the public prosecutors office in the city of Marivan.
About the charges she added : A short while ago a news was published in " Rasan " publication (which is a Kurdish women publication) that a woman have been killed by her husband,then the brother of the accused brought a complaint against the publication , infact the complainant of this case is a private complainant. She said in dealing with this file there are signes of legal problems.
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Translated by IRAN WATCH CANADA
Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/5401/
Other news from Ifex link:
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
11. IRANIAN JOURNALIST AWARDED GOLDEN PEN OF FREEDOM
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom prize to jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji and called for his immediate release. Ganji is serving the fourth year of a six-year sentence and has reportedly been tortured.
The Golden Pen award, which will be presented on 5 June 2006 at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Moscow, Russia, recognises Ganji's "outstanding defence and promotion of press freedom."
Ganji was arrested in April 2000 following his participation in a Berlin conference which discussed political and social reform in Iran. He was sentenced to six years in prison in 2001 for "insulting religious edicts and figures, threatening national security and dissemination of propaganda against the Islamic system." Ganji is the author of the book "Dungeon of Ghosts," which implicates former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and other leading conservative figures in the murders of five writers and intel
lectuals in 1998.
Ganji has gone on two long hunger strikes during his prison term, including a two-month stint that ended in early September. He was discharged from hospital and moved to the notorious Evin prison, where he is being kept in solitary confinement.
Previous winners of the Golden Pen of Freedom award include Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman, Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota and Sudanese editor Mahjoub Mohamed Salih.
Visit these links:
- WAN: http://www.wan-press.org/article8619.html
- Golden Pen of Freedom Laureates: http://www.wan-press.org/article4489.html
- Send a Protest Letter to Support Ganji:
http://www.pencanada.ca/media/RAN11Nov05-Iran.pdf
- RSF: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15632- Iran Watch Canada: http://www.moriab.blogspot.com/
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News in brief
gooya news online reporting from "ISNA" :
Summoning of a Kurdish journalist !
Ms. "Soraiya Azizpanah" the managing official of " Rasan " publication, has been summoned to the public prosecutors office in the city of Marivan.
She was charged for " publishing lies" . Ms. Soraiya who is a member of the "Association in Support of Children Rights " in this regard have told to reporter from ISNA that : Tomorrow ( Thursday ) I have to be in division number one of the public prosecutors office in the city of Marivan.
About the charges she added : A short while ago a news was published in " Rasan " publication (which is a Kurdish women publication) that a woman have been killed by her husband,then the brother of the accused brought a complaint against the publication , infact the complainant of this case is a private complainant. She said in dealing with this file there are signes of legal problems.
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Translated by IRAN WATCH CANADA
Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/5401/
Other news from Ifex link:
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
11. IRANIAN JOURNALIST AWARDED GOLDEN PEN OF FREEDOM
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom prize to jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji and called for his immediate release. Ganji is serving the fourth year of a six-year sentence and has reportedly been tortured.
The Golden Pen award, which will be presented on 5 June 2006 at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Moscow, Russia, recognises Ganji's "outstanding defence and promotion of press freedom."
Ganji was arrested in April 2000 following his participation in a Berlin conference which discussed political and social reform in Iran. He was sentenced to six years in prison in 2001 for "insulting religious edicts and figures, threatening national security and dissemination of propaganda against the Islamic system." Ganji is the author of the book "Dungeon of Ghosts," which implicates former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and other leading conservative figures in the murders of five writers and intel
lectuals in 1998.
Ganji has gone on two long hunger strikes during his prison term, including a two-month stint that ended in early September. He was discharged from hospital and moved to the notorious Evin prison, where he is being kept in solitary confinement.
Previous winners of the Golden Pen of Freedom award include Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman, Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota and Sudanese editor Mahjoub Mohamed Salih.
Visit these links:
- WAN: http://www.wan-press.org/article8619.html
- Golden Pen of Freedom Laureates: http://www.wan-press.org/article4489.html
- Send a Protest Letter to Support Ganji:
http://www.pencanada.ca/media/RAN11Nov05-Iran.pdf
- RSF: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15632- Iran Watch Canada: http://www.moriab.blogspot.com/
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