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Iranian Journalists Behind Bars

Columbia Journalism Review·@SusieBanikarim·2 months ago
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It has been almost a week since the United States and Israel began bombarding Iran in a coordinated military assault that President Donald Trump has said will last at least four weeks. The death toll in Tehran has already risen above a thousand people, and there is still a lack of clarity from the administration on the justification or objectives for the war. The country, battered from months of widespread government protests and a brutal crackdown that left more than seven thousand people dead, has been plunged into another near-total internet blackout. The ability of Iranians to communicate with one another or to get reliable information out of the country is severely limited. As I wrote here in January, Iran was already an extraordinarily difficult environment for journalism. Since the offensive began, it has gotten dramatically worse.…

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