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Article: Government closes down leading feminist magazine.(IRAN)(Zanan)
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- April 1, 2008
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TEHRAN -- The Iranian government has closed down Iran's leading feminist magazine, Zanan ("Women" in Farsi) for "publishing information detrimental to society's psychological tranquility." Zanan, which for 16 years has been a forum for Iranian women's issues, was also accused of "offering a somber picture of the Islamic Republic," "compromising its readers' mental health" and "publishing morally questionable information." Since 2005, the Iranian government has suspended 42 publications and canceled the licenses of 24 others, often arresting publishers and reporters in the process.
Shahla Sherkat, founder of Zanan, was once a hardline supporter of the Iranian ...
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