Iranian Blogger Receives Heavy Jail Sentence

By: nart on 23 February 2005
Posted in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Reuters reports that an Iranian journalist blogger received a fourteen-year prison sentence for charges of insulting the state's leaders and espionage. This is part of the crackdown on Iranian journalim that includes Internet filtering.

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