PEN America: Iran Bans Print Media in Response to COVID-19
April 02, 2020
April 02, 2020
NEW YORK, April 2 -- PEN America issued the following statement Summer Lopez, senior director of free expression programs in response to an Iranian coronavirus task force's wholesale ban on print media:
"This move looks worryingly like yet another example of an authoritarian regime using the the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to constrain rights-in this case, narrowing restrictions on press freedom in Iran even further.
"Many countries have rightly recogniz . . .
"This move looks worryingly like yet another example of an authoritarian regime using the the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to constrain rights-in this case, narrowing restrictions on press freedom in Iran even further.
"Many countries have rightly recogniz . . .