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Detriorating health condition of Eisa Sahar -Kheiz The imprisoned Iranian journalist in Rejaeishahr prison!

Eisa Saharkheiz health condition is deteriorating.He is in Rejaeishahr prison with other journalists and political activists. During the last week he had hemorrhage for several time and his blood pressure droped to a dangerous level.According to report on Kalameh website , doctors have pointed out that he must go to emmergency surgery . Although the family members told to prison officials that, they would pay for the expenses , still no permission is given to transfer him to a hospital.Saharkheiz was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Saharkheiz is also one of the founding member of the Association of Journalists in Iran.

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Pressuring Journalists: Once Every 18 Hours
Association of Iranian Journalists Reports - 2008.10.16
Nader Irani
The latest report by the Association of Iranian Journalists describes the condition of journalism ‎in Iran by examining three factors, "the right to free publishing," "the right to have a job and ‎professional security," and "the right to judicial protection in courts for journalists," concluding ‎that these three rights were violated or undermined by government officials once every 18 hours ‎in the three summer months of 2008. ‎
The report explains the method by which it reached the conclusion of violations in the rights of ‎journalists once every 18 hours: "If the 93 days of summer are multiplied by 24 hours, the result ‎is 2232 hours. And if the resulting figure is divided by 121 cases of violating rights of ‎journalists the figure of 18 hours is the result." ‎
In other words, the referenced figure shows that compared to Spring 2008, when the ‎corresponding figure was once every 36 hours, government pressure on journalists has increased ‎by 100 percent. ‎
The report continues by noting the change of tactics in confronting the media: "the present study ‎reveals a discernible trend in the method of confrontation of the country's preventative ‎institutions against the media. On this basis, country's officials from ministers to presidential ‎advisors and governors and provincial managers have allowed themselves to issue orders to ‎journalists, thus reducing the scope of 'the right to job and professional security for journalists.'" ‎
Another part of the report, which deals with "the right to job and professional security for ‎journalists," states, "The provincial branches of the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance are ‎vastly confronting 'local press homes' (local press associations) and, as published reports show, ‎are intending to establish local press homes that support the administration parallel to the ‎existing local press homes." ‎
The report also references 43 counts of violating "the right to judicial protection in court for ‎journalists," of which 2 cases deal with verdicts issued by the jury, 3 cases deal with press ‎violations examined in court, and 6 cases deal with issued verdicts. 4 cases concern the outright ‎ban on publications placed by the Press Oversight Committee (affiliated with ministry of culture ‎and Islamic guidance). Creating additional restrictions for Emaddedin Baghi in prison and ‎sentencing Bani-Taraf to 5 years imprisonment are among reports that are discussed in the ‎section dealing with "the right to judicial protection in court for journalists."

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