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September 6th, 2005

   

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Iranian bloggers in action to save Iran's Heritage!

Farid Pouya · 15:10 · Middle East & North Africa

About 8 months ago Guardian journal published ” Dam is threat to Iranian Heritage”. In this article Iranian learned that “More than 100 of Iran's potentially most important but least examined archaeological sites, including fringes of Pasargadae, the city built by King Cyrus the Great, will be flooded in the next two years according to the UN, which appealed yesterday to international scientists to try to record what they can.

The flooding of the eight-mile Tang-e-Bolaghi gorge because of the construction of a dam will destroy ancient Persia's imperial road which ran from Persepolis to Pasargadae“.

Iranian Bloggers again before any Iranian site, journal or Iranian political group have started to moblize people in Iran & World. According to LogoMahi, who gave “Pasargadae Under Water”, as title to his writing, first we must inform everybody about what is going on then protest movements will become reality. Izadbanou, another blogger says nobody has right to deprive us from our history.Izadbanou has given a link to a petition against dam project .Already more than 4000 signed that.Another blogger,Man Iraniam(means I am Iranian) says our silence about this event equals the death of our civilisation.

Iranian government continues dam construction.

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Warning: Yahoo! won't protect you.

A small portrait of the translator Julien Pain · 13:01 · East Asia

According to Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders), Information supplied by Yahoo! helped Chinese journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison

The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao – sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” – shows that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China’s state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him. It reveals that the company provided the Chinese investigating organs with detailed information that apparently enabled them to link Shi’s personal e-mail account (on the Chinese Yahoo! service at yahoo.com.cn) and the specific message containing information treated as a “state secret” to the IP address of his computer. More details from RSF here.

Shi Tao was jailed because he e-mailed sensitive political information to be posted on dissident websites hosted outside China. His case is a cautionary tale to bloggers around the world: If you are publicizing information and views that your government doesn't want exposed - even if you believe you have the right to do so under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - companies like Yahoo! will not shield you from your government.

Click here for the full text in both Chinese and English of the Shi Tao verdict (PDF document) courtesy of the Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-governmental organization.

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