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The International Publishers Association is urgently trying to locate an Iranian publisher on women's issues after she was named in an alleged blacklist of Iranian publishers.
The blacklist, reportedly circulated by a chapter of Iran's Basij militia at Khajeh Nasir University, contains names of Iranian publishers it thinks are displaying "evidence of soft overthrow and velvet revolution".
Among those included are Roshangaran, which publishes material on women's issues, which made the 64-page document for its publication of works on "civil society and civil struggle". The publisher's founder, Shahla Lahiji, won the Independent Publishing Association's Freedom To Publish prize in 2006 and the organisation is urgently trying to contact her.
Aleksis Kirkorian, director of Freedom to Publish at the IPA, told The Bookseller: "We are very concerned about the alleged blacklist of publishers in Iran and are currently making investigations. It is not clear where she [Lahiji] is right now. But according to my contact . . . this blacklist does exist. It would have actually been issued by a mosque."