maandag, mei 12, 2003
A reformist journalist detained for giving interviews to foreign media said Monday he was released pending trial. Sina Motallebi was detained April 20 after he responded to a summons to report to a police station for interrogation. ,,I was released and will wait for the trial,'' Motallebi told The Associated Press from his home. He refused to give further details, including the charges he faces.
His wife, Farnaz Ghazizadeh, said it is time for Motallebi to remain silent because ,,his family needs him.'' ,,He was interrogated since his detention on April 20. He accepted some of the charges and rejected the others. I cannot disclose any more details. Sina was instructed by authorities not to talk about his time in jail,'' she told The AP.
Motallebi developed the Farsi web site - www.Rooznegar.Com - after the reformist daily Hayat-e-Nou, or New Era, for which he wrote, was banned in January. The banning followed a cartoon showing the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's 1979 revolution, being crushed by a hand. Hayat-e-Nou editor Hadi Khamenei is the younger brother of Khomeini's successor as Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hadi Khamenei opposes his older brother's policies.
Since early 2000, Iran's hard-line judiciary has closed down about 90 pro-democracy publications and jailed several dozen writers and activists on vague charges of insulting authorities. The crackdown is widely seen as part of a power struggle between reformists who support President Mohammad Khatami's program of social and political reforms and hard-liners who oppose any dilution of clerical rule.
Bron: Associated Press via Thomas Erdbrink.
His wife, Farnaz Ghazizadeh, said it is time for Motallebi to remain silent because ,,his family needs him.'' ,,He was interrogated since his detention on April 20. He accepted some of the charges and rejected the others. I cannot disclose any more details. Sina was instructed by authorities not to talk about his time in jail,'' she told The AP.
Motallebi developed the Farsi web site - www.Rooznegar.Com - after the reformist daily Hayat-e-Nou, or New Era, for which he wrote, was banned in January. The banning followed a cartoon showing the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's 1979 revolution, being crushed by a hand. Hayat-e-Nou editor Hadi Khamenei is the younger brother of Khomeini's successor as Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hadi Khamenei opposes his older brother's policies.
Since early 2000, Iran's hard-line judiciary has closed down about 90 pro-democracy publications and jailed several dozen writers and activists on vague charges of insulting authorities. The crackdown is widely seen as part of a power struggle between reformists who support President Mohammad Khatami's program of social and political reforms and hard-liners who oppose any dilution of clerical rule.
Bron: Associated Press via Thomas Erdbrink.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 18:08
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