''Rooz'' (, literally ''day'') was a

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and

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news website. It was mostly staffed by exiled Iranian journalists including

Masoud Behnoud Masoud Behnoud (; born in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, He began his career as a journalist in 1964. Since then he has worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers. Behnoud lives in the United Kingdom and works as a journ ...

Ebrahim Nabavi Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi (; 13 November 1958 – 15 January 2025) was an Iranian satirist, writer, diarist and researcher. He contributed to the news website ''Gooya'' and the online newspaper ''Rooz'', and had a satirical program for the website a ...

Farah Karimi Farahnaz "Farah" Karimi (; born 15 November 1960 in Hassanabad Yasukand, garuss) is an Iranian-Dutch politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands between 1998 and 2006 for GreenLeft. Since 2019 she has been a S ...

, and

Nikahang Kowsar Nikahang Kowsar (; born 1969), also known as The Dung Beetle is an Iranian-Canadian cartoonist, journalist, and blogger, currently living in Washington, D.C., US. Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of Tehra ...

with occasional articles by activists and journalists inside Iran, including

Shirin Ebadi Shirin Ebadi (; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. In 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering effor ...

and

Ahmad Zeidabadi Ahmad Zeidabadi (; born 21 July 1965) is an Iranian journalist, academic, writer and political analyst and the secretary general of Office for Strengthening Unity. He is one of the notable figures of the Iranian reform movement. Zeidabadi has ...

. Another contributor is

Hossein Derakhshan Hossein Derakhshan (; born January 7, 1975), also known as Hoder, is an Iranian-Canadian blogger, journalist, and researcher who was imprisoned in Tehran from November 2008 to November 2014. He is credited with starting the blogging revolution i ...

, 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

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" (registered in

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Controversy

In November 2006,

who maintained the Rooz website claimed on his blog that he was accused of working for the

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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
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,

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

References

External links

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Archive of English articles on Rooz

Hivos website
Mass media in Iran {{Iran-stub

Controversy

See also

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