Julio César Gálvez Rodríguez
Profession: freelance journalist Details of arrest: arrested as part of a crackdown on alleged dissidents that began on 18 March 2003 and in which around 80 people were detained. Details …
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Ali Reza JABARI
Profession: translator and freelance contributor to several independent newspapers, including Adineh. Date of arrest: 16 March 2003 Sentence: 4 years in prison, reduced to three years on appeal. Expires: 15 …
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Profession: Writer, journalist for the now-banned pro-reform dailies Mosharekat and Khordad, and law student. Date of arrest: 10 November 2002 Sentence: 8 years in prison Expires: 9 November 2010 Details of …
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Nigerian editor and journalist Kunle Ajibade was arrested in May 1995 and accused of ‘publishing materials which could obstruct the work of the coup plotters tribunal’ and for ‘misleading the public’. The …
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Nizar Nayouf was sentenced to ten years in prison in early 1992 for membership of the banned Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights (which he co-founded) …
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