REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its deep concern about the conditions in which many Iranian journalists are being held.
Mehdi Karoubi, 76, a dissident theologian, former parliamentary speaker and owner of the closed newspaper Etemad Melli, was transferred to an unknown destination on 31 July after an angioplasty operation in a Tehran hospital. It was the third time he had been hospitalized in a week with various ailments including a heart condition.
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