Around 6 months ago, one night some 1 page newsletters were distributed in the university. In the morning students found these newsletters with some sentences against religions dignity with the logos of three studental magazines.
Nobody knows if they published those papers or Hardliners did it. The students denied this the day after and told this was done by hardliners so they will be able to shutdown universities magazines and crackdown the activities.
Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakkoli arrested the day after and held in prison for 6 months. They told that they were tortured hardly but did not accepted the "crimes". And after six months this was the news headlines: "Three students condemned to 7.5 years in total" on some websites. No newspaper will write about this in a country which
In Iran (166th), journalists are the target of very aggressive behaviour by the authorities, who tolerate no criticism or expression of political or social demands. As in the past, it is Iran that jails the largest number of journalists in the Middle East. Eight are currently held there. Many other journalists are facing serious, trumped-up charges that could result in their being imprisoned for criticising stoning or corruption, or for working for foreign news media.
(RSFs worldwide press freedom index 2007)
