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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 5:38
Maya Neyestani on the recent detention of 14 journalists by the regime
1811 GMT: Press Watch. Reformist newspapers have protested the arrests of their journalists since Saturday.
On its front page, Shargh published an empty space where Pouria Alami's column would usually have appeared and explained that "it will not be printed until further notice".
The newspaper Bahar wrote, "Our journalists deserve respect." It said that it is not possible at this point to comment on the charges of "spying and ties with foreign news organizations", but added that it is not clear how 14 journalists without any such backgrounds could suddenly have been detained, since all are fully aware of the red lines that cannot be crossed in the Islamic republic.
"Therefore, it doesn't seem that they could come close to such charges," the paper wrote.