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where contributors inside and outside of Iran provide news about women's issues. Her site has been repeatedly filtered by the
Iranian government. Baniyaghoob is known for being a freelance Iranian reporter, author, and activist who focuses her reporting on how government and social oppression affect women. As a journalist, Baniyaghoob has faced numerous ramifications and has been arrested, beaten and imprisoned on numerous occasions for her reporting. While working for the Sarmayeh newspaper, Baniyaghoob started a column on women's economy, which featured interviews with experts on the gender issues of economics. The column was canceled in 2008 by the paper's management. Baniyaghoob traveled throughout the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria from 2001–2002. She has written about women and refugees she encountered on her trip, covering issues of social and legal discrimination. Baniyaghoob was arrested in June 2006, when security forces attacked a peaceful gathering of women's rights activists in front of the University of Tehran, where she was covering the event for Sarmayeh. She was also arrested in March 2007 while covering those who opposed the Islamic Revolutionary Court's trial of women's rights activists. She was imprisoned in a wing of Tehran's Elvin prison where she was blindfolded and subjected to numerous interrogations by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry who operate the prison. She was later sent to prison in September 2008 after being found guilty of "disruption of public order, failure to obey police orders and propagandizing against the Islamic regime. Most recently she was arrested in June 2009 while covering the post-election protests in Iran and was later released in August. In 2010, Iran sentenced Baniyaghoob to jail for one year and banned her from writing for over 30 years over post-election unrest.
156:. While she was young, many of her teachers encouraged her talent in writing. These teachers were politically engaged against the conservative who had taken over the country of Iran, some of which were arrested and persecuted for their political views. This gave Baniyaghoob the insight behind the political atmosphere starting from a young age and used it as an early building block for her career in covering politics as well as the economic factors of discrimination against women.
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national security", "spreading propaganda against the system", "disrupting public security" and "insulting the president". In 2010, Baniyaghoob was tried and convicted for "spreading propaganda against the system" and "insulting the president". The court banned her from practicing journalism for thirty years and sentenced her to a year in prison.
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was re-elected amid allegations of voter fraud. On the night of 20 June, both
Baniyaghoob and her husband were arrested at their home by plainclothes police officers, as part of a general crackdown on journalists. Amou'i was jailed that year on charges of "gathering and colluding with intent to harm
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Baniyaghoob is a founding member of the One
Million Signatures Campaign for Equality, which aims to change the discriminatory laws against women in Iran. She has also published a book, Journalists in Iran. Her book documents the experiences of Iranian journalists and women under duress, as well as
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Baniyaghoob began her career as a journalist while working for the daily newspaper
Hamshahri while attending college at Allameh Tabatabayi University. Baniyaghoob has worked for many publications since college such as Sarmayeh newspaper, and now as editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani
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Baniyaghoob was born on 21 August 1970, in Iran. As a young child in Iran, Baniyaghoob was exposed to the political atmosphere very young. She was surrounded by chaos and political influence for most of her childhood, but it wasn't until 1979, when Jila
Baniyaghoob became a journalist. She was 11
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Baniyaghoob is known for her fearless reporting on the oppression of women and the government. She refuses to censor her work and as a result, she has been fired from some media outlets. She continues to travel through the Middle East to report on the lives of women and refugees. Her reporting
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awarded
Baniyaghoob its Courage in Journalism prize, stating that she had "fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women". The following year, she won the Freedom of Speech Award of
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awarded
Baniyaghoob its Courage In Journalism prize, stating that she had "fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women". The following year, she won the Freedom of Speech Award of
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some of her own experiences. Baniyaghoob also published a second book, Women of Evin: Ward 209, which is based on her firsthand observations of women prisoners in Evin Prison in Tehran and will be published outside of Iran.
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In 2008, she was imprisoned a third time for covering a women's rally, on charges of "disruption of public order, failure to obey police orders and propagandizing against the
Islamic regime".
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129:: ژيلا بنى يعقوب ; born 21 August 1970) is an Iranian journalist and women's rights activist. She is the editor-in-chief of the website
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133:("Focus on Iranian Women"). Baniyaghoob is married to fellow journalist
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continues to make her a target of the
Iranian government.
486:. Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality
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Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality
292:. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 4 September 2012.
290:"Iranian Journalist Charged Over 'Unauthorized Blog'"
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624:. Associated Press. 18 May 2009. Archived from
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261:. International Women's Media Foundation.
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396:. International Women's Media Foundation
657:"DAY 10: SPOTLIGHTING JILA BANIYAGHOOB"
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356:"Jila Baniyaghoob, Crime: Journalism"
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180:Beginning in June 2009, Iran saw
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557:Angela Charlton (21 June 2009).
265:from the original on 4 July 2012
2862:Iranian prisoners and detainees
976:, McClatchy's Baghdad bureau (
686:Focus on Iranian Women website
112:Freedom of Speech Award (2010)
16:Iranian journalist (born 1970)
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1248:María Teresa Montaño Delgado
61:Allameh Tabatabai University
2872:Political prisoners in Iran
2847:Iranian democracy activists
2232:Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand
1674:Political prisoners in Iran
105:Courage In Journalism Award
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2573:Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran
663:. Nobel Women's Initiative
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2603:Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini
2568:Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
2257:Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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512:. WebCite. Archived from
435:. WebCite. Archived from
227:Reporters Without Borders
218:Reporters Without Borders
2643:Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh
842:Maribel Gutierrez Moreno
661:Nobel Women's Initiative
429:"Jila Baniyaghoob, Iran"
259:"Jila Baniyaghoob, Iran"
143:, a business newspaper.
2704:Seyed Hossein Mousavian
2447:Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi
2412:MohammadReza Alee Payam
2242:Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
852:Blanca Rosales Valencia
778:Mirsada Sakic-Hatibovic
200:to begin the sentence.
2638:Gholam Hossein Sadighi
2008:Amir Reza Nasr Azadani
1805:Amir Khosrow Dalirsani
1740:Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee
1710:Maryam Akbari Monfared
1254:Reporting on Ukraine (
1100:Solange Lusiku Nsimire
1058:Chiranuch Premchaiporn
206:prisoner of conscience
2633:Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
2588:Mohammad-Reza Khatami
2324:Amir Farshad Ebrahimi
2055:Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
1925:Sayed Ziaoddin Nabavi
1626:Xueqin (Sophia) Huang
1385:Colleen "Koky" Dishon
1036:Claudia Julieta Duque
729:Courage in Journalism
202:Amnesty International
2730:Ali Mohammad Afghani
2513:Seyyed Ebrahim Amini
2283:Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
2117:Bahman Ahmadi Amouee
1810:Dhabihu'llah Mahrami
1745:Amir Abbas Fakhravar
1730:Mahmudali Chehregani
1616:Katsiaryna Andreyeva
1439:Alma Guillermoprieto
1318:Lifetime Achievement
1256:Isabelle Khurshudyan
1164:Rosario Mosso Castro
748:Lilianne Pierre-Paul
595:. 4 September 2012.
546:– via Twitter.
160:Career in journalism
135:Bahman Ahmadi Amou'i
95:Bahman Ahmadi Amouee
2857:Iranian journalists
2750:Mahmoud Etemadzadeh
2745:Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
2598:Mir-Hossein Mousavi
2432:Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
2427:Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
2391:Amir Emad Mirmirani
2308:Abdolfattah Soltani
2060:Mohammad Ali Taheri
1972:Amir Emad Mirmirani
1900:Ghasem Sholeh-Saadi
1775:Vida Hajebi Tabrizi
1599:Karen Grigsby Bates
1575:Nikole Hannah-Jones
1260:Anastacia Galouchka
1252:The Washington Post
1050:Adela Navarro Bello
890:Amal Abbas of Sudan
792:Christiane Amanpour
754:Lyubov Kovalevskaya
535:Baniyaghoob, Jila.
190:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
188:in which President
182:widespread protests
2852:Iranian dissidents
2775:Ahmad Samii Gilani
2740:Najaf Daryabandari
2578:Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
2508:Mohammad Atrianfar
2498:Abbas Amir-Entezam
2303:Mohammad Seifzadeh
2142:Mohammad Ghouchani
1885:Kavous Seyed-Emami
1785:Leila Hosseinzadeh
1760:Ali-Asghar Gharavi
1510:Stephanie Sinclair
1242:Victoria Roshchyna
1132:Janine di Giovanni
1104:Brankica Stanković
1072:Khadija Ismayilova
922:Tatyana Goryachova
912:Anna Politkovskaya
786:Cecilia Valenzuela
736:Maria Jimena Duzan
537:"Jila Baniyaghoob"
480:"Jila Baniyaghoob"
390:"Jila Baniyaghoob"
131:Kanoon Zanan Irani
85:Kanoon Zanan Irani
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2770:Fariborz Raisdana
2694:Ramin Jahanbegloo
2608:Farajollah Mizani
2553:Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
2533:Nasrollah Entezam
2467:Sedigheh Vasmaghi
2452:Khosrow Golsorkhi
2437:Keramat Daneshian
2247:Heshmat Tabarzadi
2137:Abdolali Bazargan
2101:Mohammad Rasoulof
2091:Mohammad Nourizad
1993:Ali Akbar Heidari
1946:Hengameh Ghaziani
1941:Taraneh Alidoosti
1920:Habibollah Peyman
1855:Shiva Nazar Ahari
1850:Youcef Nadarkhani
1755:Parvaneh Forouhar
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1491:Anja Niedringhaus
1415:Elena Poniatowska
950:Anja Niedringhaus
898:Carmen Gurruchaga
894:ineth Bedoya Lima
870:Aferdita Kelmendi
848:Elizabeth Neuffer
782:Arijana Saracevic
760:Catherine Gicheru
638:HighBeam Research
575:HighBeam Research
565:on 3 January 2013
204:designated her a
186:disputed election
123:Zhīlā Banī Yaʻqūb
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2795:Sadegh Zibakalam
2790:Nasser Zarafshan
2765:Shahrokh Meskoob
2663:Mostafa Tajzadeh
2648:Ali Shakouri-Rad
2613:Ahmad Moftizadeh
2548:Dariush Forouhar
2523:Jila Baniyaghoob
2493:Shahrbanoo Amani
2483:Mohsen Aminzadeh
2360:Shervin Hajipour
2237:Hengameh Shahidi
2172:Elaheh Mohammadi
2152:Adnan Hassanpour
2096:Hossein Rajabian
2086:Mahnaz Mohammadi
1967:Atena Farghadani
1895:Jamshid Sharmahd
1840:Narges Mohammadi
1835:Ahmad Moftizadeh
1830:Mohsen Mirdamadi
1765:Kouhyar Goudarzi
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1609:Wallis Annenberg
1581:Yamiche Alcindor
1421:Peta Thornycroft
1343:Katharine Graham
1292:Samantha Schmidt
1150:Hadeel al-Yamani
1108:Alexandra Trower
1018:Jila Baniyaghoob
768:Gordana Knezevic
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1451:Zubeida Mustafa
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1268:Siobhán O'Grady
1264:Kamila Hrabchuk
1228:Vanessa Charlot
1219:Khabar Lahariya
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990:Ban Adil Sarhan
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