Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2017
(WorldNews Africa)

22.02.2017 - Ahmad Montazeri returned to prison Reporters Without Borders (RSF) firmly condemns progressive cleric Ahmad Montazeri`s arrest yesterday. The editor of the website of his late father, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, he was returned to prison after being summoned before a special court for clerics. Tried behind closed doors and without a defence lawyer on 20 October, Montazeri was sentenced on 27 November to ten years in prison for endangering state security, ten years for publishing a `classified audio recording` and another year for anti-government `propaganda.` He was prosecuted for posting an old recording on the website on 9 August 2016 in which his father could be heard...