·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: 2010 : 112 netizens imprisoned, Oktober 2010 (Liste von im Iran inhaftierten Bloggern)

- Depuis le : 13 October 2010 - Mehdi Khazali - blogger

- Depuis le : 2 January 2010 - Kouhyar Goudarzi - blogueur

- Depuis le : 13 December 2009 - Hossien Ronaghi Maleki - Net-citoyen

- Depuis le : 8 September 2009 - Mohammad Davari - rédacteur en chef du site Etemad Melli

- Depuis le : 2 September 2009 - Ali Asguar Jamali - Blogueur

- Depuis le : 12 January 2009 - Mohammad Pour Abdullah - Blogueur (http://www.feuer17.blogspot.com/) - directeur du blog

- Depuis le : 29 November 2008 - Mojtaba Lotfi - Cyberdissident - Condamné à quatre

 ans de prison et de cinq ans de bannissement pour ‘diffusion d’opinions du grand  

 ayatollah Montazeri’ et de ‘publicité contre le régime’.

- Depuis le : 1 November 2008 - Hossein Derakhshan - blogueur (http://www.hoder.com)

- Depuis le : 0000 - Amir Asslani – internaute” (RSF, Oktober 2010)

·       AI – Amnesty International: Blogger unfairly tried, sentenced to 19 years, 7. Oktober 2010

„Blogger Hossein Derakhshan, 35, a dual Canadian-Iranian national, has been unfairly tried and sentenced on 28 September 2010 to 19 and a half years’ imprisonment on vaguely worded charges relating to national security. He was detained without charge for about19 months prior to trial and denied regular access to his family and lawyer. Amnesty International believes he is likely held solely for the peaceful expression of his views, and if so should be immediately and unconditionally released.” (AI, 7. Oktober 2010)

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Two bloggers held by Revolutionary Guards could face death penalty, 23. September 2010

“Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about serious human rights violations by the Revolutionary Guards against journalists and netizens held in Iranian prisons. Prosecutors may be about to request the death penalty for two bloggers who have been detained since 2008, Vahid Asghari and Hossein Derakhshan.

 

Organised Crime Surveillance Centre

Ever since its creation by the Revolutionary Guards in March 2009, the Organised Crime Surveillance Centre has played an active role in tracking down and arresting outspoken netizens.” (RSF, 23. September 2010)

·       AI – Amnesty International: Shiva Nazar Ahari – Iran, Mai 2010

“Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist, blogger and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), was arrested with two other CHRR members, Kouhyar Goudarzi and Saeed Haeri, on 20 December 2009. They were arrested while on their way to the funeral the following day of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a senior cleric critical of the authorities. Shiva Nazar Ahari, born in mid-1984, is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for the peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression and association.” (AI, Mai 2010)

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Sentenced to six years in prison, 18. September 2010

“Journalist and human rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of conspiracy and anti-government propaganda. She has not as yet been jailed and has decided to appeal against her conviction.” (RSF, 18. September 2010)

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Persecution of bloggers continues, now with harsher sentences, 15. Oktober 2010

 “Reporters Without Borders condemns the increasing severity of the Iranian regime’s persecution of bloggers. One, Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, was given a 15-year jail sentence 10 days ago while another, Mehdi Khazali, the editor of the website Baran http://www.drkhazali.com15. Oktober 2010), was arrested two days ago.” (RSF,

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st July 2010), 19. Oktober 2010

 “Judicial authorities on 24 June allowed a release on licence to seriously ill journalist and documentary maker Mohammad Norizad. He worked for several years as an editorialist on the daily Kayhan, the conservatives leading press organ. Following the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president on 12 June 2009, the journalist, who also ran the blog http://mohammadnurizad.blogfa.com/19. Oktober 2010), began to be openly critical of Iran’s Supreme Leader as well as the government and the country’s justice system. The 54th chamber of Tehran’s appeal court on 29 May confirmed his sentence of three and a half years in prison and 50 lashes for ‘publicity against the regime and insulting the authorities’.” (RSF,

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Cracking down remorselessly, Tehran shows its true face, 28. Oktober 2010

 “The other development on 22 October was a Tehran appeal court decision to uphold the sentence of one year in prison followed by a 30-year ban on working as a journalist which a Tehran revolutionary court imposed earlier this year on blogger and reporter Jila Bani Yaghoob. She had been notified of the revolutionary court’s sentence on 8 June.

Yaghoob and her husband, Bahaman Ahamadi Amoee, were arrested on 20 June 2009 along with around 20 other journalists during the demonstrations that followed the presidential election held eight days earlier. She was released on 24 August 2009 but her husband remained in detention and was given a five-year jail sentence. Yaghoob’s ‘We are journalists’ blog was a winner in the ‘Reporters Without Borders Freedom of Expression’ category in this year’s international ‘Best of the Blogs’ competition that Deutsche Welle organized in Berlin from 13 to 15 April.” (RSF, 28. Oktober 2010)

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2010), 22. Juni 2010

“Journalist and blogger Ebrahim Rashidi notified his family by telephone on 17 June that he had been arrested by intelligence ministry officials in the northwestern city of Ardabil. Rashidi, who writes for the weekly Bayram, had been missing since 14 June.

The organisation has also learned that Nasour Naghipour, a blogger who was arrested in March, has been released pending trial after payment of 100 million toman (75,000 euros) in bail. […]

Reporters Without Borders has learned that two women journalists and bloggers who work for pro-reform newspapers and websites were arrested at their homes yesterday by men in plain-clothes. They are Azam Vismeh, who works for Parlemannews, the official website of the pro-reform parliamentarians, and Mahbobeh Khanssari, who writes for the Cultural Heritage agency. The reasons for their arrest and their place of detention are still unknown. […]

Reporters Without Borders has meanwhile learned of the release of the following four journalists and bloggers pending trial:

Mojtaba Gahestoni, the editor of the Sokhango.blogfa.com (http://sokhango.blogfa.com) website, who was arrested on 2 March and released on 4 April

Said Jalali, a blogger and contributor to the Human Rights Rapporteurs Committee, who was arrested on 1 December 2009 and released on 29 March

Said Kalnaki, a blogger and member of the Human Rights Rapporteurs Committee, who was arrested on 1 December 2009 and released on 13 March

Foad Shamss, a blogger who was arrested on 30 November 2009 and released on 10 March. […]

Reporters Without Borders also learned of the release of four journalists on 18 and 19 March 2010: Ali Moazemi, journalist on the opinion pages of several newspapers and director of the blog “Here and Now”, arrested on 7 March 2010; Kivan Farzin, journalist on Farhangh é ahangh arrested on 5 January. Two journalists on the cultural monthly, who were arrested at the same time as Farzin, Behrangh Tonkaboni, and Arvin Sedaghat Kish, were freed on 28 February. […]

However, several other journalists, whose situation is very worrying, were denied the right to visits or were not allowed releases on licence. One of them was Masud Lavassani, a journalist and blogger arrested on 26 September and sentenced in December 2009 to eight years in jail. Another such case was that of human rights activist and reformist journalist Mehdi Mahmudian, who was arrested on 16 September. At the request of these journalists’ families, Reporters Without Borders had not added their names to its barometer. […]

Reporters Without Borders has learned of the release on 13 March of three journalists and bloggers:

*Vahid Pourostad, a blogger arrested on 8 January 2010

*Lilli Farhadpour, a contributor to Meher News, arrested on 7 February

*Somayeh Momeni, a journalist on Nasim Bidary, arrested on 7 February

These journalists were all released on bail while awaiting trial. […]

Ali Moazemi, a journalist on the opinion pages of several newspapers and director of the blog “Here and now“, was arrested on 7 March 2010,after being summoned by the intelligence ministry. His family have had no news since of the reason for this arrest of where he is being held.

On 2 March, Mojtaba Gahestoni, director of the website Sokhango (spokesman), was arrested in the city of Ahvaz.

Reporters Without Borders has learned of the release of four journalists and bloggers, on 7 and 8 March:

Mehrdad Rahimi, blogger arrested on 2 January, was released on 8 March.

Yashar Darolshafa, netizen arrested on 2 February, was freed on 8 March. […]

Several human rights activists were arrested on the same day, among them the blogger and activist Naghipour Nasour. The director of the website http://www.nasour.net/ was arrested at home in Qazvin by agents in plain-clothes. The reasons for his arrest and the place in which he is being detained are still unknown. […]

Reporters Without Borders has learned of the release yesterday of four journalists and bloggers:

Abdolreza Tajik, freelance journalist committed free expression activist and contributor to the daily Farhikhteghan, who was arrested on 28 December 2009,

Behrangh Tonkaboni, journalist on Farhangh é ahangh, arrested on 5 January 2010,

Rozbeh Karimi journalist for Shargh and Kargozaran, who was arrested on 2 January 2010,

Mashaallah Shamsolvaezin, spokesperson for the Iranian Journalists’ Association and the Committee for the Defence of Freedom of the Press, who was arrested on 28 December 2009.

Ali Hekmet, a member of the Committee for the Defence of Freedom of the Press, who was arrested on 2 January, was freed on 27 February. […]

Blogger Ali Anjam Rooz was arrested at his home during a search by plain-clothes intelligence ministry agents on 27 February. It is not known either why he was arrested or where he is being held. […]

Ali Kalai, arrested on 7 February, Ardavan Tarkameh, arrested on 27 January and Parisa Kakaei, a journalist and director of a blog (http://parisad.blogspot.com/) arrested on 2 January 2010, were also released on bail while awaiting trial. […]

As a roundup continues in Iran of opposition and media figures orchestrated by the Ministry of Intelligence and Revolutionary Guards, Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay at the arrests of Rozbeh Karimi, Mehrdad Rahimi, Behrangh Tonkaboni, Kivan Farzin, Mehdi Ghilani and Farshad Azizi. The worldwide press freedom organisation has heard nothing more of several other Iranian journalists and bloggers who were also reportedly taken into custody recently. […]

Also on 2 January, Mehrdad Rahimi, who is director of the blog (http://shahidayeshahr.blogfa.com// ), was arrested after being summoned by the intelligence ministry and she has reportedly been taken to Evin prison. […]

Parisa Kakaei, a journalists and blogger (http://parisad.blogspot.com/), was arrested today after being summoned by the intelligence ministry. She was reportedly transferred to Tehran’s Evin prison.” (RSF, 22. Juni 2010)

·       Payvand: Iranian Blogger Sentenced to Justify Regime's "Coup Plot" Claims, 17. Oktober 2010

 “Hossein Derakhshan had hoped to return Iran safely, but hardliners arrested him and made him centrepiece of "coup plot" case.

The long jail sentence handed down to well-known Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan exemplifies the sometimes baffling way in which decision-making takes place in Iran. While he had certainly expressed dissident views in the past, Derakhshan had tempered his criticism more recently and had agreed with officials that he could safely return to live in Iran, where he planned to work for a state television channel.

The return to the fold of the man once known as Iran's ‘blogfather’ might have offered the regime a rare propaganda coup. Yet he was arrested soon after his return in 2008, and held for almost two years. In September this year, he was sentenced to 19 years and six months plus a hefty fine for colluding with ’hostile governments’, anti-regime and counterrevolutionary propaganda, offending Islamic sensibilities and running ‘obscene’ websites. […]

Derakhshan emigrated to Canada in 2000 and took out dual citizenship. His blog posts, which served as an inspiration to many young Iranian web users, were supportive of the reform movement and raised taboo religious, political and even sexual issues.” (Payvand, 17. Oktober 2010)

·       The Wall Street Journal: Iranian Crackdown Goes Global, 3. Dezember 2009

 “NEW YORK -- His first impulse was to dismiss the ominous email as a prank, says a young Iranian-American named Koosha. It warned the 29-year-old engineering student that his relatives in Tehran would be harmed if he didn't stop criticizing Iran on Facebook. Two days later, his mom called. Security agents had arrested his father in his home in Tehran and threatened him by saying his son could no longer safely return to Iran. […]

The regime has been cracking down hard at home. And now, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows, it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well.

In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide -- not just prominent dissidents -- who criticize the regime, according to former Iranian lawmakers and former members of Iran's elite security force, the Revolutionary Guard, with knowledge of the program.

Part of the effort involves tracking the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube activity of Iranians around the world, and identifying them at opposition protests abroad, these people say. […] About three dozen individuals interviewed said that, when traveling this summer back to Iran, they were questioned about whether they hold a foreign passport, whether they possess Facebook accounts and why they were visiting Iran. The questioning, they said, took place at passport control upon their arrival at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport. Five interviewees who traveled to Iran in recent months said they were forced by police at Tehran's airport to log in to their Facebook accounts. Several reported having their passports confiscated because of harsh criticism they had posted online about the way the Iranian government had handled its controversial elections earlier this year. […] An Iranian engineer in his 30s who lives in a German-speaking area of Europe, and who attended protests there this year, described having his passport, cellphone and laptop confiscated when he later traveled to Tehran. He said he was called in for questioning several times, blindfolded, kicked and physically abused, and asked to hand over his email and Facebook passwords. […] One 28-year-old physician who lives in Dubai said that in July he was asked to log on to his Facebook account by a security guard upon arrival in Tehran's airport. At first, he says, he lied and said he didn't have one. So the guard took him to a small room with a laptop and did a Google search for his name. His Facebook account turned up, he says, and his passport was confiscated. After a month and several rounds of interrogations, he says, he was allowed to exit the country.” (Wall Street Journal, 3. Dezember 2009)

·       FH - Freedom House: Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media – Iran, 30. März 2009

“Self-censorship is extensive, particularly on political matters, and many bloggers and journalists write under pseudonyms. It is important to note that while the Iranian blogosphere and Iranian news sites do push the bounds of what is acceptable to the regime, the most socially and politically progressive sites are managed and staffed by Iranians living abroad. Since the short-lived era of relative press freedom under President Mohammad Khatami, many online intellectuals and activists have left the country. Iran's best-known bloggers – such as Omid Memarian, Roozebeh Mirebrahimi, and Shahram Rafizadeh – are now writing from foreign cities and have been sentenced to prison in absentia.” (FH, 30. März 2009)

·       The Guardian: German journalists held in Iran after 'stoning' interview, 11. Oktober 2010

 “Since the disputed presidential election in June 2009, Iran has cracked down on foreign and local media. More than 100 journalists and bloggers have been arrested and at least 65 still remain in jail. Eight newspapers11. Oktober 2010) have been shut down.” (Guardian,

·       RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders: Using skilfully devised strategy, regime’s repressive policies succeed, 8. Juni 2010

“Figures

 At least 170 journalists and bloggers, including 32 women, have been arrested in the past year. - 22 of them have sentenced to jail terms totalling 135 years.

 85 journalists are awaiting trial or sentencing.

 The amounts of bail that have been paid to obtain release total about 4 million euros (5.23 billion toman).

 More than 100 journalists have been forced to flee the country.

 23 newspapers have been shut down and thousands of web pages have been blocked.

 With 37 journalists and bloggers currently held, Iran is one of the world’s four biggest prisons for the media, alongside Cuba, Eritrea and North Korea.” (RSF, 8. Juni 2010)