Picture Examples of Iranian Censorship in Magazines
A Swede by the name of Jonathan Lundqvist returned from Iran last month with a bundle of National Geographics, Economists, and Wallpapers purchased from a newsstand near Tehran University. Though these and other Western mags are permitted, they're heavily censored -- moreover, they're manually censored, by government readers who go through each copy and cover forbidden ladyparts with white stickers or black ink.
"I brought some magazines with me when I went back to Sweden from Iran. The thing was that I was very surprised to begin with when I found copies of The Economist in the window of a newsstand near the Tehran University in Enqelab Square... It was not until the second time I saw one of the black slabs of ink that I realized that the magazines were indeed censored!"
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