Hossein Derakhshan
From Wikipedia: Hossein Derakhshan (in Persian: حسين درخشان; born January 7, 1975), also known as Hoder, is an Iranian weblogger. He is credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran and is...
View ArticleMehdi Khazali
According to Payvand.com, blogger Mehdi Khazali, head of Iran's Medical Data Bank and son of hardliner, Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, was arrested on October 13, 2010, by Iranian authorities. He was...
View ArticleNavid Mohebbi
Reporters Without Borders reported the arrest of the 18-year-old blogger Navid Mohebbi at his home in Amol on 18 September by eight intelligence ministry officials. Acording to RWB, Mohebbi is facing...
View ArticleMohammad Reza Pourshajari
Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, a blogger also known by the name Siamak Mehr, was arrested on September 12, 2010. According to reports, Pourshajari was scheduled to be tried on December 21, 2011 on charges...
View ArticleFereydoun Seydi Rad
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Seydi Rad was arrested in March 2011 and later sentenced to one year in prison for "propagating against the regime." According to a different source,...
View ArticleRojin Mohammadi
Iranian blogger Rojin Mohammadi was arrested on November 14, 2011 upon returning to her home country of Iran from the Philippines. According to HRANA, she was released then subsequently summoned on...
View ArticleVahid Asghari
Vahid Asghari, a 24-year-old student in India, was arrested on May 11, 2008 at Tehran Airport and accused of hosting websites with “pornographic” content critical of the government. Amnesty...
View ArticleSaeed Malekpour
Saeed Malekpour, a 36-year old web and circumvention tool developer based in Canada, was arrested over several charges, including “acting against national security through propaganda against the...
View ArticleHossein Ronaghi Maleki
Iranian blogger and software developer Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was arrested in December 2009 and sentenced in 2010 to fifteen years in prison. In May 2012, in protest of conditions and his being...
View ArticleMohammad Soleimani Nia
Mohammad Soleimani Nia, a social-media expert and the founder of Iranian social networking site u24, was recently arrested for the second time this year after being released on bail in May following a...
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