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Iran
expels AFP reporter for covering protests
Friday March 11, 2011 05:01:32 PM,
DPA
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Tehran: Iran has
expelled a reporter of the French news agency AFP for trying to
cover a protest gathering, news media sources in Tehran said
Friday.
Jay Deshmukh, an Indian national who was deputy of the AFP bureau
in Tehran, had apparently tried, together with his assistant, to
cover a protest gathering Feb 15 despite an official ban.
The 40-year-old Deshmukh had been working for the AFP in Tehran
since 2009.
Dozens of reporters and photographers from the foreign media are
said to have lost their accreditation for having tried to cover
last month's protest demonstrations.
Restrictions on local and foreign media in Iran have drastically
increased following protests against alleged fraud in the June
2009 presidential election, which saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
re-elected.
Since July 2009, the foreign media has officially been banned by
the foreign press department of the culture ministry from directly
covering the protests and contacting opposition figures.
Any violation of the ban would lead to prohibition from work or
even expulsion.
The Iranian judiciary last month established a special prosecution
office for offences related to media.
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