TEHRAN Branch 1413 of Tehran Public Court on Sunday issued a temporary detention order against journalist Mohammad Qouchani.
An informed official told IRNA that no arrest warrant had been issued against the journalist.
He said the Law Enforcement Forces (LEF), the Jame'h Rohaniyat Mobarez (JRM) and two individuals as well as the prosecutor had lodged complaints with the court against journalist Qouchani.
Meanwhile, Seyed Ebrahim Nabavi, a reformist columnist was detained upon an order by Press Court Judge Saeid Mortazavi on Saturday.
The detention order was issued after Nabavi was interrogated by the court.
"Nabavi's arrest and detention come simultaneous with his being elected as "best satirist" in last year's (Iranian) Seventh Press Festival," an informed source told IRNA on Sunday.
Also an informed source said that mong the plaintiffs against Nabavi were four MPs.
Also, Branch 1408 of Tehran's Public Court barred Mohammadreza Yazdanpanah Fadaei from running the pro-reform daily Azad, sentenced him to pay a cash fine and banned the daily from publishing for five months, a press report said on Sunday.
The government daily Iran reported that Judge Mohammadreza Saremi penned the decision released on Saturday.
The daily also said that Azad has already suspended its operation for four months and, consequently, a period of one month of suspension remains to be served.
The daily Hamshahri also rolled back on its Saturday's news item quoting associates of the imprisoned reformist journalist Emaddodin Baghi as saying Tehran's Press Court has banned his controversial books.
The daily noted on Sunday that informed judicial sources had denied this report, saying the ban targets only a book containing his articles handed over to the judicial officials by its publisher upon a complaint by the Information Ministry.
The book covers the serial murders case in 1998 of several intellectuals and dissident figures.