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Bloggers arrested in Iran

hoder — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:25:36 -0800

Iran: Blogger/Journalists arrested over banned Reformist websites (stop.censoring.us)

Pictures of Iranian bloggers

hoder — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:27:40 -0800

Pictures from the Bloggers' stand in the first Web festival of in Tehran, Iran, include some photos of Iranian female bloggers.

Iranian blogger arrested

dagny — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:34:56 -0800

Iranian blogger arrested Sina Motallebi, well-known blogger and journalist was arrested this morning. He is accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles both in newspapers and his weblog. His weblog, WebGard (i.e. web surfer), was among the top 5 Persian most popular weblogs while his wife, Farnaz, has her own weblog, mostly writing about their newly-born baby boy, Mani. [via jj]

Iranian blogger's meeting

hoder — Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:05:19 -0800

15 months after the first waves, Blogging seems to prove so popular among young Iranian boys and girls that now the number of Persian (or Farsi) weblogs has jumped to more than 9,000. Almost half of them are using Blogger.com's free service and other half are using a similar but more Persian-friendly online application, created by Iranian programmers, called Persianblog.com. Tomorrow, they are gathering in a big conference hall in Tehran to meet other colleagues and bloggers and to share what they've experienced during their lovely days of a rare thing in Iranian history: absolute freedom of expression