Iran protests: Female journalists targeted in spate of arrests
More have been detained since the start of the protests than ever before, an advocacy group says. …
“We’re seeing an unusual number of female journalists being arrested because what sparked the protests was the mandatory hijab law and the death of a young woman because of gender discrimination,” Yeganeh Rezaian, a researcher with the Washington-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told the BBC.
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