Dictatorship in harsh clampdown as Iran journalists being jailed for simple freedom of expression

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UN rights monitor alarmed by Iran media crackdown

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Reporters Without Borders activists take part in a protest in front of an Iran Air agency in Paris on July 10, 2012, to denounce journalists’ imprisonment in Iran. The United Nations’ monitor for human rights in Iran sounded the alarm Tuesday over a rise in arrests of journalists.