Arash Sigarchi harassed
In Iran, officials have continued harassment against Voice of America and Radio Farda journalists and their families. Arash Sigarchi, an award-winning former activist and political prisoner, who is now a journalist for VOA’s Persian Service, has written a letter to the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani describing the harassment of his parents, who were interrogated for several hours on September 10 in Iran. The Sigarchis were pressured to tell their son to resign from VOA — otherwise, further harm would come to him.