Further Information on UA 34/06 (MDE 13/011/2006, 10 February 2006) and follow-ups (MDE 13/022/2006, 28 February 2006; MDE 13/070/ 2006, 23 June 2006) [MDE 13/081/2006]
Journalist Elham Afroutan, who was arrested in January, was reportedly banned for 5 years from "exercising her social rights"; she was also sentenced to 1 year's imprisonment which was suspended for 5 years, reportedly on account of her age; Mohsen Dorostkar, the editor-in-chief of the same newspaper, was reportedly acquitted