''Rooz'' (, literally ''day'') was a
Persian and
English news website. It was mostly staffed by exiled Iranian journalists including
Masoud Behnoud,
Ebrahim Nabavi,
Farah Karimi, and
Nikahang Kowsar with occasional articles by activists and journalists inside Iran, including
Shirin Ebadi and
Ahmad Zeidabadi. Another contributor is
Hossein Derakhshan, who has been under arrest in Tehran since 1 November 2008.
It was first published on the web on May 10, 2005. It is published by "Iran
Gooya" (registered in
France
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).
Controversy
In November 2006,
Hossein Derakhshan who maintained the Rooz website claimed on his blog that he was accused of working for the
Islamic Republic
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government and therefore not paid for a year by Rooz.
[Hossein Bastani, editor of Rooz, a Hivos-funded project, refuses to pay staff's rights, accusing them of working with Islamic Republic to stifle free speech](_blank)
Furthermore, he hoped that Hivos, a Dutch organization that helps to fund for Rooz, would pressure them to allow more freedom of speech to their staff.
In response,
Nikahang Kowsar claimed that Derakhshan has taken the website "hostage" and that he demands "ransom", and asked director
Hossein Bastani to confront Derakhshan.
[http://nikahang.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post_116326605491307166.html ]
See also
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Radio Zamaneh
References
External links
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Archive of English articles on RoozHivos website
Mass media in Iran
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