1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/Appeals court upholds jail sentence of Kurdish journalist - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uEuyd6qJhr"><a href="https://cpj.org/2006/09/appeals-court-upholds-jail-sentence-of-kurdish-jou/">Appeals court upholds jail sentence of Kurdish journalist</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2006/09/appeals-court-upholds-jail-sentence-of-kurdish-jou/embed/#?secret=uEuyd6qJhr" width="600" height="338" title="“Appeals court upholds jail sentence of Kurdish journalist” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="uEuyd6qJhr" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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New York, September 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the ruling of an Iranian appeals court upholding a one-year prison sentence against Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand. The court of appeals in the northwestern province of Kurdistan ordered him to serve the suspended jail term, the semiofficial Iranian…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260