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Article: \parAuthor jailed for writing ethnic romance as Iran's censors crack down on dissent\par ; \par\par
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- March 16, 2008
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\parThe limits on freedom of speech are not confined to the
election period \parthough, but part of a censorial onslaught being
felt across Iran's cultural \parlandscape. \par\par
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\parThe closure of newspapers and the jailing of journalists has
become \parcommonplace. But for the first time, a prize-winning
young novelist has been \parsentenced to jail for the behaviour of
his fictional characters. Directives \parfrom the National Security
Council containing the latest Islamic guidelines \parland on the
desks of Iranian editors once or twice a week, and they are in
\parno doubt that they must comply. They have been told in the past
that any \parmention of Hizbollah, or of the ...