Friday, June 15, 2007

Censorship Stepped Up in Iran

BBC: Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has said censorship in her country is getting much worse.

Ms Ebadi, a human rights lawyer, said the government was trying to prevent information about what is happening there reaching the outside world.

The recent arrest of four Iranian-Americans for spying was part of that trend, she told the BBC. Iran censorship ‘getting worse’ (more)

Mark Alexander