Attacks on the Press in 2010 - Committee to Protect Journalists

<strong>Attacks</strong> on the Press in 2010Eastern Azerbaijan province, told the semi-official Fars News Agency.Espionage in Iran carries a possible death sentence.Bild am Sonntag quoted Editor-in-Chief Walter Mayer as saying that“the Iranian authorities know perfectly well that they are journalistsand nothing else.”imprisoned: october 24, 2010Mohammad Reza Moghiseh, Bist-saleh haMoghiseh, editor-in-chief of the magazine Bist-saleh ha and regularcontributor to reformist news sites, was being held at Evin Prison, theBBC Persian service reported. Security forces raided his office andhome at the time of his arrest, the reformist news website Kalamereported.Moghiseh had been arrested in October 2009 and sentenced to sixyears in prison on undisclosed charges, the BBC Persian servicereported. As they did with some other detainees, authorities freedMoghiseh on bail; he posted US$500,000 bail in March 2010. Thereason for his rearrest was unclear.A board member of the now-defunct Association of IranianJournalists, Moghiseh was among a number of journalists and oppositionpoliticians who investigated prison abuses in the aftermath of thecontested 2009 presidential election. He was a supporter of presidentialcandidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.imprisoned: november 3, 2010Nazanin Khosravani, freelanceKhosravani was a political columnist for several now-banned reformistnewspapers, including Bahar, Doran-e Emrooz, Kargozaran, andSarmayeh. Security officers searched her home and confiscated heraudio recorder, computer, and other personal items, according to theBBC Persian service. The reformist news website Kalame said foursecurity agents searched Khosrovani’s home and threatened her familymembers.Khosrovani called her family once and said she was in solitary confinement,Kalame reported. Authorities blocked family visits and ignoredinquiries about her legal status and well-being. Khosrovani sufferedfrom a heart condition for which she was under treatment. No formalcharges had been disclosed by late year.392