Appendix 1

Individuals in Kurdish areas of Iran who faced persecution and restrictions as a result of their journalistic activities:

1. Bahram Valad-Beigi, editor of the Persian and Kurdish-language newspaper Ashti newspaper (see main text).

2. Barhan Lahooni, general manager of the Persian and Kurdish-language newspaper Ashti (see main text).

3. Asu Saleh, journalist and member of the editorial board of the Persian and Kurdish-language newspaper Didgah (see main text).

4. Mohammad Saeed Kaboudvand, general manager of the Persian-language weekly Payam-e Mardom and the director of the Organization for the Defense of Human Rights in Kurdistan (see main text).

5. Adnan Hassanpur, journalist and member of editorial board of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Asou.

6. Hiva Boutimar, environmental activist with Green Society of Marivan who published a weekly with this organization.

7. Ejlal Ghavami, journalist and member of the editorial board of the Persian-language weekly Payam-e Mardom.

8. Aku Kurdnasb, manager of news section of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Karaftoo.

9. Abdullah Sohrabi, owner of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Roojh Halat.

10. Reza Alipour, journalist and member of editorial board of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Roojh Halat.

11.Saman Soleimani, journalist and member of editorial board of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Roojh Halat.

12. Tonia Kaboudvand, journalist and manager of the women section of the Persian-language weekly Payam-e Mardom.

13. Namu Hedayati, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

14. Kaveh Hosseinpanah, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

15. Jahangir Hashemi, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

16. Jamshid Vaziri, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

17. Majid Mohammadi, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

18.  Cyrus Ebadi, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

19.  Hassan Sheikhabadi, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

20. Yousef Aziz, journalist and member of editorial board of Payam-e Mardom.

21. Saman Rasulpour, journalist and human rights activist. (see main text).

22. Madeh Ahmadi, journalist.

23. Saeed Saedi, journalist.

24. Farhad Aminpour, journalist and member of editorial board of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Roojh Halat.

25. Roya Toloue, editor of the monthly Persian and Kurdish-language monthly Rasan.

26. Hossein Ahmadiniyaz, general manager of the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Asu.

27. Jalil Azadikhah, editor of Asu.

28. Sadigh Minayee, journalist with Asu.

29. Ghorban Abbasi, a journalist with the publication Persian language Farday-e Ma.

30. Yousef Pirboudaghi, journalist Farday-e Ma.

31. Ibrahim Darvishali, reporter for Kurdistan TV channel.

32. Leila Madani, general manager of the weekly Persian and Kurdish-language Karaftoo and member of the Kurdish Writers Association.

 33. Soleiman Bayazidi, member of the editorial board of the weekly the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly Payam-e Kurdistan.

34. Feyzallah Piri, journalist and member of the editorial board of the publication Sirwan, a Persian and Kurdish-language weekly owned by Kurdistan municipalities.

35. Jalal Jalalizadeh, manager of Sirwan.

36.Tofigh Rafiyee, director of Sirwan.

37. Kaveh Javanmard, journalist with the weekly Persian and Kurdish-language Karaftoo.

 38. Omid Ahmadzadeh, journalist from Sanandaj who worked with the Persian and Kurdish-language weekly papers Asu and Didgah.