HRANA News Agency – Alireza Roshan, Iranian journalist has been taken to jail to serve his one-year sentence for “assembly and collusion aimed at disturbing national security.”
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), quoted from Majzouban Website, Roshan, a journalist working for the Shargh daily, was transferred to Evin Prison on Saturday, November 17. He was reportedly convicted for his “collaboration with the Majzooban-e Noor website”, a site that reports on Iranian dervishes, who have become the target of a crackdown by Islamic Republic authorities in recent years.
Alireza Roshan was also arrested in September of 2011 during a raid on the Majzooban-e Noor website and released on bail a month later.