Published on 22 February 2007
17 March 2010 - Blogger’s death in detention still unexplained one year later
16 March 2010 - Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2010)
3 March 2010 - Two newspapers closed, detained journalists under pressure to request forgiveness
Journalist Adnan Hassanpour, who was arrested in front of his home on 25 January, works for the weekly Asou. Publication has been suspended since 2005 on the orders of the Culture and Islamic Orientation Ministry, because it carried articles about the very tense situation in Iranian Kurdistan.
Adel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, better known by the pen name Kareem Amer, was arrested on 6 November 2006, for articles published on his blog .
