TEHRAN – The Iranian independent Ghanoon (Law) newspaper has been banned by a judiciary order.

Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi imposed the ban on the pro-reform newspaper in charges of “spreading lies” based on a complaint by the IRGC, Fars reported on Monday.

Meanwhile, Dolatabadi announced last week that Iran’s Prisons Organization sued Ghanoon’s editor-in-chief, Mahnaz Mazaheri, for publishing a feature piece about a major prison facility in Tehran.

He said the Prisons Organization sued Mazaheri for the “false allegations” contained in the article “24 Damned Hours,” published June 11, 2016.

The privately owned, non-governmental Tehran-based newspaper has been published since October 2012. It was launched as an online news website in August 2011.

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