This powerful video shows Iran’s worsening crackdown on journalists

This powerful video shows Iran’s worsening crackdown on journalists

“Only Somali journalists have gone into exile in higher numbers.”

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/10/this-powerful-video-shows-irans-worsening-crackdown-on-journalists/

A video by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows a rising trend in reporters being imprisoned for such charges as “insulting the supreme leader” or “spreading propaganda against the state;” in other words, for doing journalism. Some have faced solitary confinement, forced confessions, even death