 Extra-legal acts may work in tandem with official actions, such as in the case of the newsweekly "Tamadone Hormozgan" in Bandar Abbas, where authorities arrested seven journalists in 2007 for "insulting Ayatollah Khomeini," while government organizations and Quranic schools organized vigilantes to "ransacked and set fire" to the paper's offices.Article 38 of the constitution of the Islamic Republic forbids "all forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information" and the "compulsion of individuals to testify, confess, or take an oath.