Qazvin, Aug 27, IRNA -- A court in the northwestern Qazvin province has ordered a local weekly to suspend its publication for publishing "insulting materials and lies as well as instigating public opinion".

The suspension order was announced by the Justice Department of the Qazvin province, saying the weekly Name-ye Qazvin (Letter of Qazvin) would remain closed until further notice.

The suspension is the second in the city since another weekly Hadith-e Qazvin was suspended by the same court five days ago.

The editor of Name-ye Qazvin, Ali Shahrouzi, regretted the order, saying the court had not informed him yet of its decision as well as charges brought against the weekly.

Press Tuesday said a Tehran court has banned the daily Gozaresh-e Rouz (Daily Report) from publishing and sentenced its editor Mohammad Mahdavi Khorrami to 28 months in prison on a series of charges.

The Press Court convicted early this month Khorrami on charges of propagating against the Islamic Republic, brought by the Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps and the Police as well as the Ansar-e Hezbollah group.

The Persian daily Aftab-e Yazd cited Khorrami's lawyer, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, as saying that another file is still open at the court for charge of publishing lies by the daily.

Iranian courts have summoned scores of journalists and closed down their publications for 'publishing lies and instigating the public opinion'.

On Saturday, a Tehran court summoned Mohammad Dadfar, the managing editor of the daily Ayene-ye Jonoub (Mirror of the South) which was ordered closed early this month.

The daily, rising from a local weekly in southern Iran to a nationwide newspaper, has been suspended from publications on the ground that Dadfar had previously been sentenced to jail on charge of propagating against the Islamic Revolution.

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