Posted on 06/21/2009 9:02:04 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
PARIS – Iranian authorities have arrested 23 journalists and bloggers since post-election protests began a week ago, according to a media watchdog that says reporters are a "priority target" for Iran's leadership.
Among those arrested was the head of the Association of Iranian Journalists, Reporters Without Borders said Sunday.
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The group released a list of 23 Iranian journalists, editors and bloggers arrested since June 14, and says it has lost contact with several others believed detained or in hiding. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
2 reporters arrested , tried and sentenced to 12 years hard labor in NKorea.
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The Axis of Weasels lives.
Could you imagine the media outcry in this country right now if there was a Republican in office, and one saying virtually nothing in response to all this?
Haa! The media would be beside itself were that the case.. makes you wonder if they even care what kind of world they leave to their children.
FYI
Most of them are a bunch of fruits and lesbians, they don’t have kids so they don’t care.
Katie Couric and CNBC catch the next flight.
any reports of shoe throwing?
That said; no one can wait on 'the ONE'. . .who must do more than 'issue' double-edged,WH messages. Where the heck is he? Afraid to stand publicly behind his words?
Any other issue; no matter how trivial; this President is at a podium with cameras running.
Obama the jackal. . .disgusting; and so BAD for America and soon the world will know; just how bad he is for them.
I was hoping to that they all were MSM reporters from the US.
No such luck.
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