The Internaional Association of Iranian Independent Journalists (IAIJ) has announced that it officially started work on January 6, 2012, with the optimism to achieve its goals, i.e. supporting independent media, defending the freedom of pen and speech as well as supporting the Iranian journalists in and out of Iran.
We are fully aware that the regime in Iran will use any disruption or
crisis in it’s International relations as an excuse to increase it’s
Oppression,Terror,arbitrary detention and torture of the Iranian
Patriotic freedom fighters,an exact repetition of what has transpired
during the eight year Iran-Iraq war.
According to the domestic media in Iran, Pegah Ahangarani, has not managed to make any contacts with her family since her arrest and source and location of arrest is not vividly known, yet; whilst her family have remained silent and been avoiding to let out any news about her situation to any media.
Mahnaz Mohammadi, a documentary film director and Women’s Right Activist was arrested on Sunday by some plainclothes breaking into her home and was sent to prison. Meanwhile, there is some news reporting the call on several Women’s Right activists to Evin’s courthouse.
An eye-witness report declared that the confrontations started when the Intelligent Service Agents blocked the road after the corpse-ablutions and before Sahabi’s body reaching the end of the road. They demanded his cascket to be taken to the cemetry in the hearse when the clashes started. As Haleh Sahabi was pushed by the Intelligent service Agents and the cascket was stolen, she had a heart attack.
some of the reformatory journalists, who have also moved abroad during the past few years, having established organizations and exclusive media through which any opposing voice is censored , instead of appreciating the freedom of speech, are trying to keep their authoritative role on the media stream and information dissemination and are attempting to make a circle of insider “employee- journalist” against freelance journalists and writers by making their media activities party-based and factional