Press freedom organisation, Reporters Without Borders, says that a month after Iran's disputed presidential election, 41 journalists are still being held in prisons.
Reporters without borders have expressed "great concern" about the growing repression and restrictions being placed on journalists and cyber-dissidents. They also announced the recent detention of five more journalists in the country and said that "Four of the latest five detained have been imprisoned in a secret place and like all the others their families have had no news of their condition,".
The organisation claim that Iran is "the world’s biggest prison for journalists" and that the country "is on the way to becoming the world’s most dangerous place for them to operate,".
Reporters without borders say that the recent arrests include photographer Majid Saidi, who has for several international news agencies and has reported from Afghanistan for TIME magazine. Also arrested were Tohid Bighi, a photographer for the website Mashroteh; blogger, Henghameh Shahidi; newspaper editor, Somaieh Nosrati and Said Matinpour, of the Azeri-language weekly Yarpagh.
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