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Iran Sends Journalist to Notorious Prison, Jails Another for 2 Years – VOA News –

Iran Sends Journalist to Notorious Prison, Jails Another for 2 Years – VOA News –

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Iran Sends Journalist to Notorious Prison, Jails Another for 2 Years  VOA News

This article originated in VOA’s Persian Service. Iran has taken new steps against two detained journalists who covered domestic labor unrest and government corruption, sending one to a notorious women’s prison and sentencing another to a two-year jail term. Two human rights groups said Iranian journalist Sepideh Ghaliyan, who covered labor issues in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, was transferred to Qarchak women’s prison near Tehran on Monday. She previously had been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison and prior to that, in Ahvaz, where authorities arrested her last November as she attended …

– June 4, 2019 at 01:06AM

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