Another Journalist Arrested in Iran, Whereabouts Unknown
Persian Journal (Iran)
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Ali Shokouhi, editor in chief of the Tehran-based FARDA news agency, has been arrested and transferred to an undisclosed location. The arrest this week is considered extremely worrying in Iran as the journalist was very conservative and had worked in the past as a prosecutor. Shokouhi had become well known after he participated in the late 1980s in television shows in which intellectual dissidents were forced to publicly recant their opinions.
In two of these shows Shokouhi questioned renowned Iranian intellectual Ehsan Naraghi, a consultant for UNICEF, and Fereidoun Farrokhzad, a very popular singer who was later killed in Germany.
Though Ali Shokouhi did not belong to the group of dissidents from the reformist area led by former president Mohammad Khatami, he had transformed the new FARDA news agency into a staunch critic of the government and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Because of its editor's connections with the Iranian intelligence, the agency had also become a precious source of information on the government's decisions behind the scenes.
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