TEHRAN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline Revolutionary Court has
seized books, documents and family pictures from the home of a jailed political activist, his wife said on Thursday.
Hoda Saber, editor of the banned reformist Iran-e Farda monthly magazine, was jailed in Tehran's Evin prison after being interrogated
on undisclosed charges last month.
His wife said he was being denied access to his lawyer and that the nature of the charges against him remain unclear.
"Agents of the Revolutionary Court came last night and took books, documents and even family photos of me and the children," Saber's wife
Farideh said.
The court had earlier seized documents from the offices of Iran-e Farda monthly magazine, which had advocated democracy and greater
tolerance, newspapers said.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Zeydabadi, another reformist journalist on hunger strike in jail, said he would not break his fast until prison
conditions improved, press reports said.
Zeydabadi, jailed six months ago on dissent charges, was reportedly taken to the prison hospital recently after internal bleeding, they
said.
Iran's judiciary has closed down more than 30 independent publications and jailed many reform activists - some as yet without trial - since
the latest crackdown on freedom of expression began last year.
The move followed a speech by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who accused the independent press of serving as "bases of the enemy".
The speech signalled a crackdown on Iran's nascent press freedoms by hardliners opposed to social and political reforms and the concept of
a modern civil society.
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