Reports from Teheran say that two student journalists have been jailed by a court dominated by conservatives in the central city of Yazd. A reformist daily newspaper Hambastegi said Islamic and cultural groups had complained about articles in the Yazd University student magazine, Arman, which has since been outlawed. Fifteen other people who worked on the magazine have also been summoned by the media court. In the year leading up to the elections in Iran this month, the media courts suspended more than 30 reformist newspapers and journals. Meanwhile, a group of former Iranian MPs have published an open letter to the head of the judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud Hasemi Shahroudi criticising the arrest of dozens of intellectuals on charges of subversion. (BBC)