Roozonline

{{Short description|Persian and English news website}} {{redirect-distinguish|Rooz|Rooz (album)}} {{italic title}} '''''Rooz''''' ({{langx|fa|روز}}, literally ''day'') was a Persian and English news website. It was mostly staffed by exiled Iranian journalists including Masoud Behnoud, Ebrahim Nabavi, Farah Karimi, and Nikahang Kowsar with occasional articles by activists and journalists inside Iran, including Shirin Ebadi and Ahmad Zeidabadi. Another contributor is Hossein Derakhshan, who has been under arrest in Tehran since 1 November 2008.<ref name="amnesty_hoder_arrest">{{cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| title =Document - Iran: Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture or other ill-treatment/ possible prisoner of conscience: Hossein Derakhshan (m)| publisher =Amnesty International| date =2009-12-15| url =https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/178/2008/en/| accessdate =2009-04-20}}</ref>

It was first published on the web on May 10, 2005. It is published by "Iran Gooya" (registered in France).

==Controversy== {{disputed|date=March 2008}}

In November 2006, Hossein Derakhshan who maintained the Rooz website claimed on his blog that he was accused of working for the Islamic Republic government and therefore not paid for a year by Rooz.<ref name="hoder">[http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/015639.shtml Hossein Bastani, editor of Rooz, a Hivos-funded project, refuses to pay staff's rights, accusing them of working with Islamic Republic to stifle free speech] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706104612/http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/015639.shtml |date=July 6, 2007 }}</ref> Furthermore, he hoped that Hivos, a Dutch organization that helps to fund for Rooz, would pressure them to allow more freedom of speech to their staff.<ref name="hoder"/> In response, Nikahang Kowsar claimed that Derakhshan has taken the website "hostage" and that he demands "ransom", and asked director Hossein Bastani to confront Derakhshan.<ref>https://nikahang.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post_116326605491307166.html {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}</ref>

== See also == *Radio Zamaneh

==References== {{reflist}} {{refbegin}}

==External links== * {{in lang|fa}} {{Official website|http://roozonline.com/ }} * [http://www.roozonline.com/english.html Archive of English articles on Rooz] * [http://www.hivos.nl/english Hivos website] {{refend}}

Category:Mass media in Iran