Iranian journalist Marzieh Rasouli walked to prison on Tuesday 8 July. She had been summoned a day earlier to serve her sentence of 'two years plus fifty lashes', passed by a court of appeal for 'propaganda against the state and disrupting public order through participation in rallies'.
Marzieh was first to break all this in twitter. She noted the
'rush' in calling her to Evin before even the verdict from the court of
appeal could be delivered.
Ms Rasouli was first arrested in January 2012. She spent
six weeks in 'temporary detention', partly in solitary confinement,
during which she was pressured to confess she had worked for the BBC. A
film was later aired on Iran's state TV in which Rasouli and a number of
other journalists talked to the camera, and were accused of 'unlawful
contact with foreign media'. The BBC has repeatedly said it does not
work with journalists inside Iran, including Ms Rasouli.
In March 2012, Ms Rasouli was released on bail. One year later she was
sentenced to two years in prison and fifty lashes for taking part in
protests after the disputed 2009 elections. A court of appeal upheld the
ruling.
Marzieh Rasouli wrote mostly about arts and culture. She
began her work as a journalist with ISNA in 2001 and later joined a
number of so-called reformist newspapers, the latest of which where
Etemad and Shargh. She also kept a popular blog in Farsi, Three Days Earlier.For more information about Marzieh Rasouli, please contact:
free.parastoo.marzieh@gmail.com
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