Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the fact that no less than 23 journalists have been arrested in Iran in the week following the elections, making Iran one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. Online activists are trying to counter this trend by giving advice for helping Iranian protesters. One problem is that Iranian leaders are trying to delegitimize the reform movement by pretending that the reformers are puppets of foreign powers, so special discretion is required for anyone wanting to help the Iranian people."

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I'm sure Hitler killed more

[davidwr]

Probably Stalin too.

The United States killed about over 140,000 people with one bomb near the end of World War II, many if not most of them civilians and many of them children.

While we can argue forever if the Atomic Bombings were "justified warfare" or not, the facts remain that there are worse governments than Irans and that despotic regimes don't have a lock on mass killings of innocent people.