Today is the anniversary of the 1906 Iranian constitutional revolution. However Iranian people are still struggling for democracy and student activists are still sent to jails.
This year several student activists will spend this year’s anniversary in prisons. They include: Mohammad Hashemi, Ali Nikoonesbati, Ali Vefghi, Bahareh Hedayat, Mehdi Arabshahi, Hanif Yazdani, Abodllah Momeni, Bahram Fayyazi, […]
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An editor for the international Committee to Protect Journalists contacted me a few days ago to confirm the news that I had posted about regarding the situation of the arrested students and newspaper editors and to help them with some translations.
On Tuesday the article was published. I want to personally thank Ivan Karakashian and the […]
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Today is the World Press Freedom Day, not surprisingly it is not a day that is officially celebrated in Iran! The journalists are reportedly more and more censored in Iran and it’s got to the point that even the bloggers such as Kianoosh Sanjari who took the responsibility of reporting events are experiencing solitary confinement […]
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Posted in Links on Apr 29th, 2007 No Comments »
World execution numbers fall (but rise in Iran!)
Mark Tran, Guardian Unlimited. April 27
Number of people executed in Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Pakistan rises despite overall decline, Amnesty international says.
Mobile messaging gets filtered in Iran
Fars News Agency, April 27
Number of ministries agree to filter the mobile Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) which can include […]
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Posted in Blogs and blogging on Apr 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
To start blogging.
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