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Posted on 12/15/2003 1:50:41 PM PST by nuconvert
Appeal for Release of 11 Imprisoned Journalists to mark UN envoy's visit to Iran
Payvand's Iran News
11/4/03 /Reporters Without Borders called today on the Iranian authorities to unconditionally free 11 jailed journalists during an official visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Ambeyi Ligabo.
It called on them to allow the top UN envoy, who arrives in Teheran on 4 November, to meet the journalists, especially those being held in solitary confinement. There has been no news of one of them, Iraj Jamshidi, for over four months. The press freedom organisation also demanded that the ban on a number of newspapers be lifted to mark Ligabo's visit.
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If this UN envoy "succeeds" in getting journalists freed, it will be due to a backroom deal made in advance and will NOT firther the cause of freedom in Iran. It will further the cause of the mullahs, thus keeping the UN in jobs. That's the only way the UN is capable of working.
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