PERSIAN EDITORS IMPRISONED
TEHERAN, February 25. Sentences ranging from five years’ hard labour- to one year’s imprisonment were imposed by a Persian military court on five Persian newspaper editors for “vilifying the Royal Family, the Government, and the Army.” It was alleged that they thus became accessories Before the fact in the recent attempt on the Shah’s life. Communist Drive in Hyderabad;— The Minister of State (Mr Sinha) told the Legislative Assembly that Communist arrests in Hyderabad since the Government’s “police action" last September, numbered 3932.—L0nd0n, February 25.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 7
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