Journalist from Mash'had summoned to court

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

Based on received reports, Ahmad-Reza Shiri, Journalist and blogger from Mash'had who had been arrested and imprisoned temporarily in February of 2003, charged with "journalistic activities and writing", was summoned to branch 7 of the Islamic revolutionary court of Mash'had in order to investigate those charges. This journalist had been arrested, questioned and threatened once before, on October 15th of this year by the press unit of the Ministry of Information and Security.