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Iran: More Than Five millon sites are filtered

Posted 19 November 2008 10:16 GMT

Written byFred Petrossian

Countries	Iran
Topics	Freedom of Speech, Governance, Digital Activism

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Iran

Iranian authorities recently announced that more than five million sites and blogs got filtered. Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, a high-ranking judicial official, said[fa] that enemies try to hurt our religious identity by using internet. No-filter, a site that fighting against filtering, says[fa]that Iranian authorities two years ago talked about ten million filtered sites.

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