Iran to hold jury trials for press offences
AFP, October, 2005
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TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's judiciary said it will use jury trials for press-related offences and that a string of sentences handed down to journalists and bans of newspapers could be lifted.
"Juries are being formed all around the country, and many trials will end the prosecution and lead to the lifting of bans," judiciary spokesman and Justice Minister Jamal Karimi-Rad told reporters on Wednesday.
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In recent years hundreds of publications have been shut down and scores of journalists arrested or imprisoned in a major crackdown by the judiciary, a bastion of Iran's religious ...
