Iran Jails More Journalists and Blocks Web Sites
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Iran has moved against pro-democracy Web sites, blocking hundreds of sites in recent months and making several arrests.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com, and a press rights group warned on Tuesday that Internet censorship in the Islamic state is on the rise.
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The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work rose for the second year with Internet bloggers and online reporters now one third of those incarcerated, a U.S.-based media watchdog said on Thursday.
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Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says that censorship by the authorities in her country is getting stricter.
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The Iranian government announced yesterday that a number of spies linked to an armed opposition movement had been arrested for passing on nuclear secrets to foreign enemies.
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By Joseph Kahn  China imposed broad new restrictions on the distribution of foreign news inside the country Sunday, beefing up state regulations on the news media and raising more questions on the freedom of journalists to report.
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Iran yesterday formally charged three Americans with espionage and endangering national security, the government's judicial spokesman said, signaling a widening clampdown against U.S. citizens in Iran.
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Iranian authorities banned five Web sites that comment on current events for "poisoning" public opinion ahead of the crucial mid-March parliamentary elections, the state radio reported on Thursday.
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A court on Monday sentenced the editor of an opposition newspaper and two other journalists to two years in jail for &quot;damaging the image of justice&quot;, in the latest case against Egypt&#39;s media.
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Syria has stepped up its muzzling of the Internet, blocking access to a string of websites critical of the regime, including some run by leading dailies, a human rights group said on Saturday.
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An Iranian-American detained in Iran said on state television on Thursday she had concluded that a network of research centers and universities she had helped create had aims which would weaken the Iranian government.
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Iran&#39;s Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi said Tuesday &quot;several people&quot; have been arrested for spying on the country&#39;s nuclear programme, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Iranian police have closed down 24  Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours,  detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral  behavior in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.
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The detention of eight Iranians in Iraq by US troops -- along with TV images of the detainees being led away blindfolded and handcuffed -- drew swift condemnation yesterday from Tehran officials.
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Iranian police have smashed an  antiquities smuggling ring, arresting 36 people and recovering  more than 940 stolen treasures, the Web site of the state  Cultural Heritage Organization said Tuesday.
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An Azerbaijani newspaper editor was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison Tuesday over an article alleging that the former Soviet republic could support a U.S. attack on neighboring Iran.
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Iranian television Wednesday aired lengthy excerpts of what it called confessions by two jailed Iranian-Americans accused of plotting to undermine the Islamic republic, a development the U.S. State Department condemned.