In a February 26 letter to the head of the Iranian judiciary's human rights headquarters, 2009 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner Jila Baniyaghoob urges Mohammed-Javad Larijani to investigate Iranian journalists' imprisonment.
"You say they have not be imprisoned because of protesting," Baniyaghoob writes, "but because of their violence and inflicting damage on people’s property."
Baniyaghoob says Larijani's claim that "no reporter or journalist has been imprisoned because of journalism" is false and challenges him to search her and her journalist husband's files to find otherwise.
Read Baniyaghoob's full account on her Web site.