The Franco-German channel Arte announced this Saturday that a journalist who had sent Iran to cover the protests that have shaken the country for a month and a half has been arrested and is being investigated.
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Is about Vahid Shamsoddinnezhadof Iranian nationality, who worked for the production company Keyi Productions and for Arte, arrested on September 28 in Saquezin a Kurdish region of Iran, the channel specified in a statement.
On September 24, he had presented to the authorities of Tehran a letter of accreditation from Arte, as well as the details of your French journalist card.
In the following days he was able to do two telephone interviews and a video for the Franco-German television.
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He is currently under arrest in the Iranian capital. and is the subject of an investigation.
shamsoddinnezhad He has lived since 2020 with his wife in France, where he graduated from the Higher School of Journalism of Lille.
Iran lives in a climate of protests since the death on September 16 of the young Masha Amin after being arrested three days earlier by the Moral Police for allegedly wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly, mobilizations calling for, among other things, the end of the Islamic Republic.
Source: Elcomercio
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