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04.10.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 
US international broadcasting into Iran is being jammed possibly in connection with demonstrations and mass arrests on 3 October 2012 as Iranians protested the plummeting value of rial [ID 228192]
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Media report: Tehran Jamming Foreign Broadcasts |
03.10.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Clashes between riot police and dozens of protesters in central Tehran, as authorities crack down on black-market currency traders [ID 228100]
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Media report: Tehran Clashes Reported As Iran Rounds Up Moneychangers |
03.10.2012 - Iran Focus
UN calls for release of several activists and journalists arrested during a clampdown against government critics over the past 2 weeks [ID 228113]
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Media report: U.N. calls on Iran to halt clampdown, release activists |
02.10.2012 - Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah jailed on 29 September 2012; Dadkhah has faced repeated arrests and convictions in connection with his activities in the field of human rights [ID 228188]
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Appeal or news release: Iran: Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah jailed |
02.10.2012 - World Organisation Against Torture
Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah taken into custody to serve 9-year prison sentence pronounced against him in May 2011 and upheld on appeal in late April 2012 [ID 228235]
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Appeal or news release: Iran: Imprisonment of lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah [IRN 004 / 0709 / OBS 103.1] |
01.10.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
According to authorities, access to the email service Gmail has been restored while the web site YouTube remains blocked [ID 227916]
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Media report: Iran Restores Access To Gmail; YouTube Still Blocked |
01.10.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Cameraman Hassan Gol Khanban, who was accompanying President Ahmadinejad to the United States, has defected and is seeking asylum [ID 227921]
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Media report: Ahmadinejad's Cameraman Seeks Asylum In U.S. |
01.10.2012 - Amnesty International
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, human rights defender and co-founder of Centre for Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), ordered to start 9-year prison sentence on 29 September 2012 [ID 227976]
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Appeal or news release: Iran must release human rights defender Mohammad Ali Dadkhah |
10.2012 - UK Border Agency (Home Office)
Protection guidelines for British asylum authorities (political opponents and opposition supporters; treatment of journalists and human rights activists; Christians/ Christian converts; Baha‘is; adulterers; gay men, lesbians, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) people; Kurds and supporters of KDPI, Komala or PJAK; smugglers; former members of state security organisations; illegal exit from Iran; women; prison conditions) [ID 230941]
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Expert opinion or position: Operational Guidance Note: Iran |
10.2012 - Zentralstelle für Informationsvermittlung zur Rückkehrförderung
Country fact sheet on infrastructure, economy, housing, health care, education and returnees [ID 238328]
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Special or analytical report: Iran - Country Fact Sheet 2012 |
27.09.2012 - Reporters Sans Frontières
Newspaper Shargh was suspended and its editor, Mehdi Rahmaniyan, detained for several hours; Head of news agency Irna, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, arrested to begin 6-month prison sentence after being convicted for "insulting the Supreme Leader" and "publishing content that violated Islamic values and public decency" [ID 228007]
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Appeal or news release: Reformist daily closed, state news agency chief jailed |
27.09.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Ali Akbar Javanfekr, top aide to president Ahmadinejad who also heads official IRNA news agency arrested and jailed [ID 227789]
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Media report: Ahmadinejad Adviser and State News Agency Head Reportedly Jailed |
27.09.2012 - BBC News
Top press adviser and head of the state-run Irna news agency, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, has been detained for publishing material said to be insulting [ID 227879]
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Media report: Iran's Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad adviser, jailed |
26.09.2012 - Iran Focus , Author: The Associated Press
Former US marine Amir Hekmati, who was arrested when visiting relatives in Iran in August 2011 and imprisoned on espionage charges, still detained [ID 227700]
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Media report: Family pleads with Iran to free jailed ex-Marine |
24.09.2012 - Reporters Sans Frontières
Iranian government announces that it has blocked access to Google and Gmail after receiving complaints about the anti-Islamic video "Innocence of Muslims" [ID 227717]
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Appeal or news release: Iran - Islamic Republic poised to launch national Internet |
24.09.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Son and daughter of former president Rafsanjani charged with antistate propaganda and detained [ID 227775]
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Media report: Iranian Ex-President's Son Detained On Return |
24.09.2012 - BBC News
Mehdi and Faezeh Hashemi, the children of the former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, have been detained on charges of corruption and inciting unrest after 2009 elections [ID 227426]
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Media report: Rafsanjani role in spotlight as children jailed |
24.09.2012 - Freedom House
Report on digital media and internet freedom (reporting period January 2011 - May 2012) [ID 227430]
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Periodical report: Freedom on the Net 2012 - Iran |
24.09.2012 - Amnesty International
5-year prison sentence against Kouhyar Goudarzi, member of the Committee for Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), upheld by appeals court; 2 other members of the CHRR currently imprisoned and are prisoners of conscience [ID 227491]
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Appeal or news release: Urgent Action: 272/12 [MDE 13/063/2012] |
23.09.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Daughter of former president Rafsanjani, Faezah Hashemi, sentenced to jail for 6 months and 5-year ban on political, cultural, and journalistic activities for distributing antistate propaganda [ID 227768]
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Media report: Former Iranian President's Daughter Begins Serving Jail Term |
22.09.2012 - Iran Focus , Author: Reuters
Women are banned from 77 different majors at 36 universities in Iran [ID 227698]
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Media report: Lift restrictions on women's education, rights group tells Iran |
22.09.2012 - BBC News
Article on the tightening of restrictions for female students being banned from a rising number of university courses [ID 227439]
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Media report: Iranian university bans on women causes consternation |
22.09.2012 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
According to US officials, secretary of state Hillary Clinton intends to remove Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO, also MEK) from list of foreign terrorist organisations; background information [ID 227537]
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Media report: U.S. Reportedly To Remove Exiled Iranian Group From Blacklist |
21.09.2012 - Iran Focus
According to UN human rights investigators, more than 300 Christians arrested since mid-2010; Muslims who convert to Christianity face persecution [ID 227699]
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Media report: Christians face arrest, persecution in Iran, U.N. experts say |
21.09.2012 - Amnesty International
Several university students interrogated or arbitrarily arrested over recent weeks; some universities have banned women from specific areas of study [ID 227519]
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Appeal or news release: Students in Iran face growing clampdown as academic year begins |
