7 July 1999

Alert

Risk of torture for two journalists arrested in Iran


Incident details

Hechmatollah Tabarzadi, Hossein Kachani

journalist(s)

other


(RSF/IFEX) - In a letter sent to the President of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, Mohammad Khatami, on 7 July 1999, RSF expressed its deepest concern
over the case of two journalists arrested on 16 and 19 June. The journalists
are Hechmatollah Tabarzadi, the chief editor of the reformist weekly
"Hoviyat-é-Khich", and Hossein Kachani, the weekly's director. Stating that
"the journalists are reportedly under interrogation at the Intelligence
Ministry," RSF is "deeply worried by the allegation of the use of torture"
against the journalists and urged Mr Khatami to secure their release.





**Updates IFEX alerts of 22 June and 17 June 1999**

Moreover, their lawyer, Mr Safari, has not been allowed to visit them in the
twenty days since their detention. RSF stressed in its letter that "holding
them without access to their lawyer is illegal."





Source:

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
@rsf_rwb
 

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Updates to this story

Eleven journalists jailed, eight others taken in for questioning in 1999 29 November 1999 CPJ concerned about ongoing campaign to stifle the independent press. 15 July 1999

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