Warrant issued for arrest of opposition daily’s editor

Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities not to execute the warrant issued yesterday for the arrest of Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, the editor of Etemad Melli, a daily newspaper that is the mouthpiece of the pro-reform party of the same name. The warrant was prompted by an article critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that was previously posted on a blog.

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