IRNA -- Former Iranian media official Issa Saharkhiz has been released from jail, Director of Tehran Province's Prisons Mostafa Mohebbi announced. Speaking to IRNA, Mohebbi said that Saharkhiz was released on Tuesday after finishing his term in prison. Saharkhiz, whose file is known as Irans first file of political crime, is charged with insulting ...

TEHRAN, Iran Isa Saharkhiz is a prominent Iranian journalist and one of the founders of the Press Freedom Defense Association in Iran. At the beginning of the presidency of ReformistMohammad Khatamiin 1997, he was in charge of domestic publications within theMinistry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, an era which Iranian media experienced unprecedentedpress ...