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The Iranian authorities have arrested seven journalists within a week. The latest to be detained are Mehran Faraji, a former reporter for the newspapers Hamshahri, Etemadeh Melli and Kargozaran, and Reyhaneh Tabatabaei (pictured here), who is a political correspondent for Shargh. Earlier in the week, five other Shargh journalists were also detained. They are Keyvan Mehregan, Ahmad Gholami, Farzaneh Roustaei, Ali Khodabaskh and Amir Hadi Anvari.
Iran currently holds more journalists in prison that any other country in the world.
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