Iran arrests 98 ‘citizen-journalists’ for contact with UK-based outlet - Committee to Protect Journalists

Iran arrests 98 ‘citizen-journalists’ for contact with UK-based outlet - Committee to Protect Journalists

Paris, July 31, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to explain the grounds on which they have summoned and arrested 98 “so-called citizen-journalists” for having contact with a London-based Persian-language television channel. “Iranian authorities must immediately clarify the legal basis for this mass detention of its citizens and cease treating those who communicate with the media as criminals,” said CPJ Chief…