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| | CBC: Correspondent - November 28, 2004 |
 | | With its youthful staff (the average age is 28), high number of female journalists, and a commitment to professional journalism and neutral reporting, Shargh is a lightning rod for censorship. |
 | | Authorities have closed Shargh once already, on the eve of the February 20, 2004 parliamentary election, for printing an open letter from reformist MPs to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei criticizing the disqualification of more than 2,000 reformist candidates. |
 | | Now, Shargh 's own editors scrupulously evaluate all their articles, trying to ensure against crossing any "red lines," which is what Iranian journalists call the strict but ill-defined boundaries that mark the topics, opinions and even writing styles considered off-limits by the country's conservatives. |
| www.cbc.ca /correspondent/feature_04-11-28.html (658 words) |
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