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IRAN: MORE JOURNALISTS FALL VICTIM TO WAR ON MEDIA Tehran, 19 Oct. (AKI) - Another journalist has fallen victim to the wave of media repression sweeping Iran. Issa Saharkhiz, editor of the monthly Aftab (the Sun) and president of an association of Iranian newspaper editors has been banned from working as a journalist or editor for the next six months. Other casualties of the apparent war on the media include Omid Sheikhian, a well-known Iranian blogger sentenced to a year in prison and two lashes and Jalal Jalalizadeh, editor-in-chief of the magazine Sirvan, who has been summoned to Tehran's court...

Iran Judge Bites the Press Representative May 25, 2004 Iran va Jahan Potkin Azarmehr In a weekly meeting between Islamic Republic judiciary and the country's press representatives, Judge Mohseni-Ezhei physically attacked Isa Saharkhiz from the press, by throwing two glass bowls at his head and then biting him on the lower abdomen. An argument broke out in the meeting after reviewing an article printed in one of the Iranian magazines on the relationship between boys and girls. Isa Saharkhiz defended the article while judge Mohseni Ezhei hurled insults at him. Saharkhiz took offence and said the judge's remarks were an...