Journalists imprisoned in Iran are being denied basic human rights, including medical treatment, visits from their families and phone calls, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.
Those who try to denounce prison conditions end up paying a price in the form of arbitrary punishments. They include Kayvan Samimi Behbahani, 73, the well-known editor of the monthly Iran Farda and president of the Association for the Defence of Press Freedom. Held since December 2020, he is serving a one-year sentence for “anti-government propaganda.” In an audio message from