1. American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi on hunger strike for past five days
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Roxana Saberi, the young American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to eight years in prison on a spying charge in Tehran on 18 April, has been on hunger strike for the past five days.
2. Appeal for donations for Iranian journalists who have fled abroad
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders is launching an appeal for financial support for Iranian journalists and bloggers, who find themselves utterly destitute as they search for a safe refuge.
3. Blogger jailed for insulting leaders dies in Iran's Evin prison
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prison‎.
4. CPJ calls for Iranian president's intervention in Saberi case
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   With an American journalist now in an Iranian jail for more than five weeks, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for the charges against her to be made public and for the Iranian government to ensure that she will receive due process.
5. Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government’s decision to ban Abdolreza Tajik, a freelance journalist and staunch free speech activist, from leaving the country.
6. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
7. IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
8. IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
9. IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Launching its ‘Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
10. In Iran, Roxana Saberi charged with espionage
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by news reports that the Iranian government has charged Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi with espionage.
11. Iran: Appeal by European journalists for release of reporter Fariba Pajooh
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    We journalists working for the media in Europe have united to ask for Fariba Pajooh’s immediate and unconditional release.
12. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
13. Iranian-American journalist gets eight years on spying charge
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders “firmly condemns” the eight-year prison sentence which a Tehran revolutionary court passed on Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on a charge of spying for the United States.
14. Iranian regime accused of crimes against humanity
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders today accused the Iranian regime of “crimes against humanity” and urged the international community to speak out.
15. Iranian women’s rights activists win first Reporters Without Borders netizen prize with support from Google
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders has awarded the first “Netizen Prize” to the Iranian women’s rights activists of the Change for Equality (www.we-change.org) website.
16. Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
17. Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
18. More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
19. Roxana Saberi finally freed
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders hails today’s release of Iranian-American journalist.
20. Roxana Saberi’s family and lawyers under strong pressure from Iranian authorities
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government’s attempts to intimidate Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, her family and her lawyers. Sentenced to 8 years in prison on a spying charge Saberi been on hunger strike since 21 April.
21. Support for lawsuit brought against Iranian government before Montreal court
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is supporting the lawsuit which Stephan Hashemi has brought against the Islamic Republic of Iran before a Montreal court in an bid to obtain reparation for the detention, torture and death of his mother, photo-journalist Zah
22. Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women’s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
    
23. World press freedom groups call for Saberi's release
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Thirty-five members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) join CPJ and Reporters Without Borders in a letter to the head of Iran's judiciary calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi.

Experts on Iran in the Sources Directory

1. The British Museum
2. Economic Cooperation Organization
3. The Hermitage
4. United Nations