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Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2016

Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2016

Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2016

29.08.2016 - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that a reporter for the newspaper Iran, was assaulted in a corridor of the Iranian parliament yesterday by Nader Ghazipour, a hardline parliamentarian from Orumiyeh, the capital of West Azerbaijan province.


When Ehssan Bodaghi, started to ask Ghazipour about the creation of a group of Azeri-speaking parliamentarians, Ghazipour reacted by punching him several times in the face and then dragged him to the office of the parliament’s security service. Security officers released Bodaghi an hour later after deleting his audio recordings and making him sign an undertaking “not to start fights.” Witnesses of the incident nonetheless said Bodaghi had just put questions to Ghazipour, who responded by accusing him of being “against Islam.

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