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Reporters without Borders writes in a statement that at least 30 journalists fled Iran after they were summoned by the authorities.According to the RSF this is the biggest exodus of journalists since the 1979 revolution.
32 journalists are arrested. Photographers, cameramen, bloggers and reporters of banned newspapers, all are accused of ‘acting against national security’.
The luckiest are able to get to Europe or the United States, but most are exposed to extra dangers by fleeing with the help of smugglers.
In the countries where they seek refuge, Turkey, Iraq or even Afghanistan, they are exposed to more harassment and police surveillance.
RSF states that the provisions of the 1951 Geneva Convention are ill-suited for such an emergency. European countries must open their doors to these journalists and support free expression in Iran.
source: RSF


Most imprisoned political prisoners have been transferred from solitary confinement and are being held in cells with one or two other cellmates. Some journalists are still in solitary confinement.
The wife of Mohsen Mirdamadi, chairman of Islamic Iran Participation Front,
said that her husband shares a cell with Abdullah Ramezan–Zadeh, spokesman of reformists.
Since Saturday Mostafa Tajerzadeh shares a cell with Mohsen Aminzadeh .
At a visit at Islamic Human Rights Commission the wife of Faizullah Arab-Sorkhi said that her husband after 100 days of detention is allowed to have visitors and is no longer in solitary detention.
Behzad Nabavi is currently after surgery in the Khatam-Ul-Anbia hospital.A release order and bond assignment have been rejected.
source: ihrv.org

In Alameh University is the use of green-colored clothing banned. Students violating the color-based dress code will not be allowed to enter the school. A student wore a mask to cover his mouth as a precaution to influenza, he had to remove his mask.
Alameh University is considered the largest university in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in both Iran and in the Middle East.
Two professors were forced to retire.
source: ihrv.org


Two books of writer Mahmoud Dolatabadi were sen to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance for publication permission, but still there is no answer.
The titles are "Colonel” and “Tarigh Basmal Shodan", of which Colonel is already translated in German and published.
At the international Buchmesse in Frankfurt the writer said that he hoped that both books will soon receive approval for publication in Iran.


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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

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