Roxana Saberi

Reuters
By Parisa Hafezi

TEHRAN | Fri Feb 3, 2012

BBC
Feb. 3, 2012

The BBC’s director general has accused the Iranian authorities of intimidating those working for its Persian service.

Mark Thompson wrote in a blog that the BBC had seen “disturbing new tactics”, including the targeting of family members of those working outside Iran.

Last week, the sister of a BBC Persian staff member was detained and held in solitary confinement at a Tehran jail.

Iran accused the BBC of inciting unrest after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.

BBC

Authorities Intensify Campaign Against BBC Persian

Journalists and Their Family Members Targeted

The Iranian judiciary should immediately stop its widespread campaign of intimidation against journalists and their family members, theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.

The Campaign also called for an end to the illegal coercion of detainees. The Campaign expressed serious concern over the videotaping of false confessions and the possibility of politically motivated broadcasts ahead of the 2 March

Interesting article about the growing number of Kurds in my hometown of Fargo-Moorhead.

Star Tribune

Mark Brunswick

Jan. 28, 2012

Kurdish refugees who have fled war-torn Iraq to settle in Fargo-Moorhead now worry about those left behind.

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