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          Iran Claims Two Detained
          Photographers “Confessed”
          July 30, 2009
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          By Dary l Lang
          Iran's official news agency says detained
          photojournalists Majid Saeedi and Satyar Emami have
          confessed to enemy behavior, a claim immediately
          rejected by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
          Saeedi, who shoots for Getty Images among other
          clients, was arrested July 10. Emami, who was identified
          by the Associated Press as working for state-owned
          newspaper Jamejam, was arrested July 9.
          State-run news agency IRNA reported Wednesday that
          Saeedi and Emami confessed to having ties with a
          movement seeking to topple the Iranian government and
          to sending pictures to enemy news agencies, according
          to CPJ, a journalists' rights group.
          In a staterner , CPJ Middle East and North Africa
          program coordinator MohamedAbdel Dayem rejected the
          supposed confessions. ‘Iran has a notorious record of
          coercing confessions from detained journalists,
          especially when they are held incommunicado for
          extended periods of time, as has been the case with
          Saeedi and Emami,' Dayem said.
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          Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein acknowledged
          Saeedi's detention on inly 13 and said the agency was
          working for his release.
          As protests raged following Iran's disputed election, the
          government banned foreign news coverage of the
          protests and the ensuing violence. Many international
          journalists left Iran, while many local residents shared
          news anonymonsly throngh Ehe InEernet.
          The Iranian government continues to hold about 34
          journalists detained during the post-election
          demonstrations earlier this month. Photographer Tohid
          Bighi was among those reported arrested July 1 1 in a
          )rters Withont Borders report.
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