Mashallah Shamsolvaezin

Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
Mashallah Shamsolvaezin (ماشاءالله شمس‌الواعظین), editor in chief of the now-banned Iranian newspapers Jame'eh, Neshat, Asr-e Azadegan, etc. Photo taken in Kish Island, Iran
Born (1957-06-18) June 18, 1957 (age 67)
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupationjournalist
AwardsCPJ International Press Freedom Award (2000)

Mashallah Shamsolvaezin (born 18 June 1957)[1] is an Iranian newspaper and magazine publisher who edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's first and most widely circulated independent newspapers, including Kayhan, Jame'eh, Neshat, and Asr-e Azadegan. He currently serves as the spokesman for the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom of the Press, and also as vice president of the Association of Iranian Journalists.[2] A recipient of the 2000 CPJ International Press Freedom Award, Shamsolvaezin has been imprisoned multiple times for his journalistic activities.[3] On June 29, 2014, he was charged with "propaganda against the state" and banned from leaving Iran. As of July 2014, he is on bail.

  1. ^ "فهرست وقایع و رویدادهای تاریخی مهم ۲۸ خرداد".
  2. ^ Oliver Luft (6 January 2010). "IFJ condemns wave of journalists' arrests in Iran". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
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