Reporters Without Borders revealed that Iran had arrested 860 journalists during the first 30 years of the Islamic revolution

At least 860 journalists were arrested by the Iranian regime and four of them were executed, in the 30 years following the 1979 revolution, said the organization Thursday. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), based on a leaked official record of Iranian justice.

The so-called "Facts about Iranian justice", which RSF has taken over thanks to an alert launcher, are considered unpublished because it is about a confidential list established by the authorities of the Islamic regime, which celebrates this year its 40 years of application.

The details of the documentall the arrests, detentions and executions committed by the Iranian authorities for decades in the Tehran regionRSF said at a press conference in Paris, which was attended by Iranian Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2003.

Of the 860 journalists detained at least four were executed, says RSF: Ali Asgar Amirani, Said Soltanpour, Rahman Hatefi-Monfared and Simon Farzami.

In addition, "dozens of other prisoners of opinion – bloggers or political activists who ran the media – were also executed by the regime". The NGO added that the Iranian authorities "They did their best to cover" Kazemi's death, Canadian journalist of Iranian origin who died in 2003 in a prison in Tehran.

The file contains 1.7 million court recordsand although people's professions are not on the list, RSF said they spent months collecting and checking the names of 860 citizen journalists or journalists who have been arrested or imprisoned.

"The very existence of this file and the millions of data it contains they show not only the scale of the lies of the Iranian regime for years when they say that in their prisons, there are no political prisoners or journalists, also the implacable machinations that he has used for 40 years to persecute men and women for their opinions or reporting"RSF Secretary General Christophe Deloire said in a statement.

He added that the results would be presented to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.

"The documents will be sent to the UN Commission on Human Rights and other international organizations, but we will not let them abuse it," said Ebadi, a lawyer for some of the defendants. They appear in the files.

(With information from EFE and AFP)