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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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