CPJ calls on Iran to release remaining 25 journalists being held

It was great news yesterday when Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari was released from jail in Iran.

He was arrested on June 21, following the country’s June 12 presidential elections but was released on $300,000 bail on Saturday after spending almost four months in prison and arrived back in London yesterday.

However as CPJ reports there are still 25 journalists in prison in the country.

Among these journalists is Fariba Pajooh, a freelance reporter who has worked for outlets such as Itmad e Milli, the Iranian Labour News Agency, and the Persian service of Radio France International. She was arrested in mid-August and was charged with “propagating against the ‎‎ regime,” according Radio France International. The station reported that she has spent about a month in solitary confinement in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and has been under pressure to make false confessions. The Human Rights Activists News Agency, a local watchdog group, reported on October 12 that ‎Pajooh has been under constant interrogation for weeks.