Iran: window dressing

A new daily is soon to be published in the place of the banned newspaper Sharq.

The editors weblog writes this. According to Alborz news, the new daily, called Ruzgar [Time] will have a different approach of the news than Sharq, but will be run by Sharq's former editorial board.
Chief-editor will be Mohammad Quchani, who was Sharq's editor-in-chief.
But, contrary to Sharq, Ruzgan will address the general public instead of the elite.
If everything goes well, October 7th the first edition of Ruzgar will be available at the newsstands.



EU sharply criticizes Iran for closing down newspapers and harassing journalists.
In a statement finnish president of EU expressed great concern about the deterioration in press freedom in Iran, especially the closure of four newspapers,inclusive the leading reformist daily Sharq.



Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Iran always supported press and journalistic freedom within the framework of the law.
He said so in relation to european criticism on press freedom in Iran.
In a statement he said this criticism comes at a time, western media being dominated by zionist censorship.
He pointed out that such allegations are being raised in a time that incidents concerning the "mohammad-cartoons" took place almost a year ago and by Western newspapers were justified on the pretext of press freedom.
“The issue angered Muslims around the world, but Western governments refused to deal with offensive publications” .




In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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