Report: Iran shuts down newspaper, detains editor
TEHRAN - A news agency in Iran says officials have detained the editor of a daily reformist newspaper after they shut it down on charge of insulting Islam.
The report Thursday by the semi-official ISNA news agency said prosecutors ordered Abbas Bozorgmehr, the editor of Aseman, to Evin prison after they closed the publication.
The prosecutor's office said in a statement that the closure came over the newspaper publishing an interview in which "Islamic retaliation law" was called inhuman. That law allows victim of a crime, his relatives or the prosecutor to demand retaliation. (AP)
