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Ban on Participation in Book Fair for Printing Mir-Hossein Mousavi Photographs
By IHRV | February 3, 2010
Following a protest by Davoud Ali-Babaei, chief editor of Omid Farda, a publishing company which has composed a 10-volume collection entitled “25 Years of What Happened in Iran? – from Bazargan to Khatami”, refused to remove a picture of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the acting Prime Minister during the war period, from the cover of the ninth volume. For this offense, the publisher was banned from participating in the 23rd International book fair in Tehran, which is planned to be held next April.
Another reason for the banning of the publication included Mr. Ali-Babaei efforts to publicizing governmental censorship when his work was blocked from distribution by security and the Office of Book Affairs affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
Source: Harana
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