My question is simple, Mr. President: " What's the definition of journalist? "

Beatings, Torture, and Imprisonment: It's Not Easy Being a Journalist in Iran.

Iran has long had a less-than-stellar record when it comes to press freedom. But when President Hassan Rouhani — a self-described moderate — came to power last year promising social reforms and a lift on the country's Twitter ban, some Iranian journalists allowed themselves to feel slightly optimistic.

That optimism subsequently faded. In the past seven months, the country’s judiciary has shut down three reformist newspapers. The moderate Ebtekar was closed last week for “spreading lies” when it ran a story on the sacking of Iran’s prison chief. Aseman was closed in February for publishing an article judged to be insulting to Islamic law, and Bahar was closed last October for a story said to question the beliefs of Shiites.

The story about the prison chief that got Ebtekar shut down actually addressed violence against imprisoned journalists — two weeks ago, at least seven members of the press, along with dozens of other people, were seriously beaten in Section 350 of Tehran's notorious Evin prison, according to opposition media and human rights groups.

“Independent journalists are under constant summonses and threats,” Morteza Kazemiana, an Iranian political journalist now living in France, tells VICE News. Kazemiana has written for a number of independent and reformist newspapers and was jailed by Iranian authorities on several occasions. “What is happening in Iran today is silence maintained through undemocratic authoritarianism and suppression of the Iranian civil society with guns, police, and military force.”

https://news.vice.com/article/beatings-torture-and-imprisonment-its-not-easy-being-a-journalist-in-iran

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