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Iran: A blogger was sentenced to five months in prison

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Written byFred Petrossian
Posted 20 December 2008 11:41 GMT

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According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and several iran based blogs Esmail Jafari, an Iranian blogger and journalist based in the southwestern city of Bushehr, was sentenced to five months in prison on 6 December on charges of “anti-government publicity” and “disseminating information abroad.” He is still free pending the outcome of an appeal.

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    […] of the Shiite faith.In the same time several bloggers such as Freedomvatan reported [fa] that Esmail Jafari, a journalist and blogger ‘was arrested by Iranian security agents'. Posted by Hamid […]

    31 December 2008, 11:40 am
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    […] of the Shiite faith.In the same time several bloggers such as Freedomvatan reported [fa] that Esmail Jafari, a journalist and blogger ‘was arrested by Iranian security agents'. Posted by Hamid […]

    31 December 2008, 11:40 am
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    […] According to Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect Bloggers, Esmail Jafari,a journalist and blogger based in the southwestern city of Bushehr was released from Bushehr prison on 18 March.Read more here. […]

    9 April 2009, 15:17 pm

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