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Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR456.htm
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Date Written: 17/06/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
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.
Abstract: New York, June 16, 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 over the disputed presidential election.
The announcement of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's victory on Saturday ignited demonstrations in different cities across Iran as the defeated reformist candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and his supp...
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