Voice from the Commonwealth
Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Another newspaper in Iran closed down by the judiciary.

Iran's hardline judiciary ordered on Wednesday the temporary closure of the country's top-selling newspaper, the fifth liberal publication to be shut down this month, sources at the newspaper told Reuters.

The Hamshari daily, which only circulates in the capital Tehran, was ordered closed due to its failure to run letters penned by politicians in response to articles carried in the newspaper. "We received the order from the judiciary to close the newspaper for 10 days due to our failure to publish the response of officials on time," a senior official at the newspaper told Reuters.


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