Attacks on the Press in 2010 - Committee to Protect Journalists

<strong>Attacks</strong> on the Press in 2010In November 2010, CPJ honored Davari with its International PressFreedom Award.imprisoned: september 16, 2009Mehdi Mahmoudian, freelanceMahmoudian, a political journalist and blogger, was serving a five-yearprison term on charges of “mutiny against the regime” for his role indocumenting complaints of rape and abuse of detainees at theKahrizak Detention Center.The detention center was closed in July 2009 after Mahmoudian andothers documented the pervasive abuse. Mahmoudian also workedwith journalist Emadeddin Baghi at the Center for the Defense ofPrisoners’ Rights. Held at Rajaee Shahr Prison, Mahmoudian wasin poor health and suffering from kidney ailments, according toDeutsche Welle.imprisoned: december 13, 2009Seyed Hossein Ronaghi Maleki (Babak Khorramdin), freelanceRonaghi Maleki, writing under the name Babak Khorramdin, discussedpolitics in a series of critical blogs that were blocked by thegovernment. He was also a founder of an anti-censorship groupknown as the Iran Proxy, which was launched in 2003.In October 2010, a Revolutionary Court sentenced Ronaghi Maleki to15 years in prison on antistate conspiracy charges, the reformist newswebsite Jonbesh-e-Rah-e-Sabz reported.Ronaghi Maleki’s family said the journalist was in poor health and hadsevere kidney problems that were going untreated, according to theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Defense lawyerMohammad Ali Dadkhah told the campaign that his client had endurednearly a year in solitary confinement.imprisoned: december 20, 2009Kouhyar Goudarzi, Committee of Human Rights Reporters386Goudarzi, a veteran journalist for the Committee of Human RightsReporters, was charged with several antistate counts based on his reporting.In June 2010, he was sentenced to one year in prison, accordingto the Human Rights House of Iran.Shortly after his arrest in December 2009, visitors to the prison saidGoudarzi’s head was bandaged, although it was not clear how he had