THE United Nation's monitor for human rights in Iran has sounded the alarm over a rise in arrests of journalists, saying this was part of a pattern of increasing violations as presidential elections loom.
Seventeen journalists were arrested in the space of one week in January, Ahmed Shaheed told reporters.
In addition, some 50 journalists were already behind bars, he said.
"I'm increasingly alarmed about the plight of journalists, bloggers and others who are defenders and practitioners of freedom of expression in Iran," he said.
"They have been charged with communicating with international news organisations or communicating with human rights organisations, both of which should be protected under law rather than being penalised."
Iran's 2009 elections were marked by a crackdown on opposition and Shaheed noted that there had been little effort to offer redress for the victims and hold perpetrators to account.
The media also faced sharpened state pressure in the 2102 parliamentary elections.
"I am concerned that with elections around the corner in June, these actions against journalists do not bode well for the prospects of a free and fair election in the country," he said.
Shaheed, a former foreign minister of the Maldives who is now a human rights academic in Britain, was named the UN's Iran monitor in 2011.
On Monday he presented a report on Iran to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
He spotlighted repression of freedom of speech and a slew of other abuses, including torture, forced confessions, secret executions and the jailing of members of the political opposition.
He also pointed to violations of the rights of women and of religious and ethnic minorities.
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