{"id":2866,"date":"2024-04-14T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2024-10-11T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:53:47","slug":"military-clash-between-iran-and-israel-triggers-new-wave-of-judicial-persecution-against-journalists-and-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/military-clash-between-iran-and-israel-triggers-new-wave-of-judicial-persecution-against-journalists-and-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Clash Between Iran and Israel Triggers New Wave of Judicial Persecution Against Journalists and Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In the aftermath of Iran&#8217;s military attack on Israel, a new wave of judicial actions against journalists and media outlets has been initiated. On April 14, 2024, the Tehran Prosecutor&#8217;s Office filed charges against Abbas Abdi, Yashar Soltani, and the *Etemad* newspaper.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judiciary&#8217;s news agency, Mizan, reported that the charges against Abbas Abdi and *Etemad* newspapers were related to &#8220;disturbing public psychological security.&#8221; According to Mizan, the Tehran prosecutor &#8220;filed charges and summoned the newspaper and the mentioned individual (Abbas Abdi) to the Tehran prosecutor&#8217;s office for explanations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simultaneously, *Fararoz*, a news channel close to the judiciary and security bodies of the Islamic Republic, exclusively reported the summoning of Yashar Soltani, a journalist and the director of the *Eskan News* website, to the Tehran prosecutor&#8217;s office. *Fararoz* stated that Soltani was summoned for &#8220;publishing false information regarding the exchange rate in the *Eskan News* Telegram channel.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the judicial actions against Yashar Soltani, Abbas Abdi, and *Etemad* newspaper, the number of media outlets and journalists who have been summoned and charged by the Tehran prosecutor&#8217;s office following Iran&#8217;s drone and missile attacks on Israel has reached at least five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, the Tehran prosecutor&#8217;s office had also filed charges against the *Jahan-e Sanat* newspaper and an economic journalist, Behnam Samadi, for &#8220;publishing material aimed at disturbing public psychological security and destabilizing the economic atmosphere of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of Iran&#8217;s military attack on Israel, a new wave of judicial actions against journalists and media outlets has been initiated. On April 14, 2024, the Tehran Prosecutor&#8217;s Office filed charges against Abbas Abdi, Yashar Soltani, and the *Etemad* newspaper. The judiciary&#8217;s news agency, Mizan, reported that the charges against Abbas Abdi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,89,25,26],"tags":[351,353,350,338,352],"class_list":{"0":"post-2866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-news-highlights","9":"category-repression-of-journalists","10":"category-repression-of-media","11":"tag-abbas-abdi","12":"tag-behnam-samadi","13":"tag-etemad","14":"tag-jahan-e-sanat","15":"tag-yashar-soltani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}