The editor of a leading pro-reform newspaper has been sentenced to six months in prison on charges of spreading anti-government information and insulting the authorities.

Only three years ago, a week of student protests over the closure of a pro-reform newspaper was suppressed.

Since the late 1990s, the court has shut down many pro-reform newspapers and other periodicals.

Khatami allies have been prosecuted and jailed, and pro-reform newspapers silenced.

The judiciary has shut down some 90 pro-reform newspapers and journals in the last two years.

The judiciary has shut down nearly 60 pro-reform newspapers and journals in the past five years and jailed dozens of journalists.

As a judge he shut down 60 pro-reform newspapers.

His latest prosecution occurred as Iran's pro-reform newspapers were being shut down despite a strong pro-democracy vote in the June presidential election.

We are also concerned about the ban on all pro-reform newspapers and magazines published in Iran.

It is further considered to be one of the most pro-reform newspapers in the country.