Three dailies allowed to reappear, a fourth still suspended

Reporters without Borders:

The editor of Eqbal was summoned to the Tehran court on the order of the prosecutor-general Said Mortazavi on 20 June to be handed an order definitively suspending his newspaper.

The previous evening, the paper published a letter from a candidate complaining about fraud in the first round of the presidential election. The journalist and his lawyer were astonished to learn that the newspaper was also facing other complaints, which they knew nothing about, since they had received no notification by post.

The dailies Etemaad, Aftabyazd and Hayat No were allowed to resume publication on 21 June after a one-day suspension.