Crumbs of human rights

Article 18 and 19: these two articles of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights are left out for  the majority of people, as restrictions on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Opinion and Information are hand in hand in Iran. News on trampling on Freedom of Expression have lately become regular. On World Press Freedom Day, while we were chanting and tweeting slogans such as “#FreePress” and “Journalism is not a crime”, we hadn’t been able to digest the few-day-old news that Jason Rezaian, the Iranian-American journalist of the Washington Post had been charged with violating Iran’s national security . The judges evoked crimes such as “spreading propaganda against the system” and“collaborating with hostile governments”. We might also recall a few other examples of journalists and bloggers who fell victim to the authorities’ curbs on freedom of expression and the media , such as Soheil Arabi or Masood Seyed Talebi. The message seems to be clear and simple as Susanna Flood, t...