Germany calls on Iran to release journalist
BERLIN – The speaker of Germany's parliament is appealing to his Iranian counterpart to release an Iranian female sports journalist arrested a day before she planned to leave for the women's soccer World Cup in Germany. Norbert Lammert's office said Monday he wrote a letter to the president of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, denouncing photographer Maryam Majd's arrest "not only as an attack on media freedom but also as a striking breach of internationally guaranteed freedom rights and human rights." Lammert called on Larijani to shed ...
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