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In the Bill of Human Rights of Cyrus the Great, we read:Freedom and tolerance of thought, speech, religion; choice of place of residence, coming and going, jobs and professions, will be on equal terms and conditions for everyone.No inquiry, injustice or harassment is allowed to be done to anyone.In this way Cyrus says that I have sown the seed of amity, friendship and affection among nations and have granted the people peace of mind, security, tranquility and comfort. From Cyrus the Great, King of Iran, sixth century B.C. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGRwzAlQbXE&feature=related toxic skies 10 PARTS EVERY ONE MUST SEE PASS IT ON. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/EAGELS-OF-USA1- The alternative 'Patriot' news world is thoroughly penetrated and controlled by agents and operatives... from talk shows and net sites, to documentary producers and columnists. Beware
Date / Time: 11/7/2009 3:04 AM UTC
(Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)
Media outlets around the world published pictures and stories from violent demonstrations in Tehran this week
Three journalists, one of them foreign, were arrested at Wednesday’s mass demonstrations in Tehran by a regime determined to suppress all independent sources of information.
Farhad Poulaid, an Iranian working for the French wire service AFP, was detained as he rode through central Tehran on a motorbike and nothing has been heard from him since. Nafiseh Zareh Kohan, an Iranian who writes for reformist publications, and Niels Krosgaard, 31, a Danish journalism student, were also held, the International Federation of Journalists said yesterday.
The arrests are part of a sustained crackdown on all independent media, foreign and domestic, in the five months since President Ahmadinejad’s hotly disputed re-election triggered the most serious unrest in the Islamic Republic’s 30-year history.
The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders said: “At least a hundred journalists and cyberdissidents have been arrested since the election and 23 of them are still being held.” It said several journalists had been sentenced to as much as six years in prison after “Stalinist” show trials.
Western journalists are now barred from Iran, and some of the few who were based there before the election, including the BBC correspondent Jon Leyne, have been expelled. Maziar Bahari, a Canadian working for Newsweek, was held for 118 days before being released on bail and allowed to leave for London last month.
Opposition activists said the regime’s prime concern was to stop the spread of information inside Iran. “They want to make sure other parts of the country don’t understand the degree of discontent in Tehran,” said one.
“Ideologically unsound” journalists on the conservative Fars news agency have been replaced by inexperienced hardliners
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