News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
The Danish Union of Journalists named the student as Niels Krogsgaard, 31. Wednesday's Tehran protests coincided with an official rally to mark 30 years since the storming of the US embassy during the 1979 Islamic revolution. A Canadian, a Japanese...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
The Iranian state-run Fars news agency said today that the Canadian and Japanese reporters were seized after a Danish journalism student was held two days ago. The Danish union of journalists said today that Niels Krosgaard, 31, was freelancing in...
News Source: AKI
| about 1 month ago
The prosecutor confirmed that several people were arrested on Wednesday when a commemoration of the 1979 storming of the US embassy was overshadowed by a counter demonstration by opponents of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's. "Some people were...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Iranian security forces arrested four journalists, including one Japanese and two Canadian nationals, during the protests in Tehran this week, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Friday. Thousands of opposition supporters, at the time the...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Denmark's journalists union says one of its members is being held in a jail in Tehran. The Danish Union of Journalists says Niels Krogsgaard "apparently was arrested in connection with a demonstration on Wednesday." The union said Friday that...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Iran — A reporter for the news agency Agence France Presse was detained by Iranian authorities during coverage of events marking the 30th anniversary of the U.S...The AFP's acting bureau chief in Tehran said Iranian reporter Farhad Pouladi was...