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Iran: 19 year old blogger is jailed

Monday, April 13th, 2009 @ 14:38 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Governance, Human Rights, Politics

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Irán: Encarcelan a blogger de 19 años...

Ghomaar, an Iran based blog, writes [fa]that Alireza Firouzi, a 19 year old blogger and student activist was arrested in Zanjan. The blogger adds that Firouzi is among student activists who revealed a sex scandal in Zanjan University in June 2008. Ghomaar adds that Alireza was interrogated by prosecutor of Zanjan about his blog and his posts.

4 comments

Solana Larsen

Oh no, not another blogger.

# 2009-04-13 at 14:42 pm

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[...] Hamid Tehrani informs us that yet another Iranian blogger has been arrested. Ghomaar, an Iran based blog, writes [fa]that Alireza Firouzi, a 19 year old blogger and student activist was arrested in Zanjan. The blogger adds that Firouzi is among student activists who revealed a sex scandal in Zanjan University in June 2008. Ghomaar adds that Alireza was interrogated by prosecutor of Zanjan about his blog and his posts. [...]

# 2009-04-13 at 19:19 pm
Michael Castro

Bloggers are doing real investigations. Where is the mainstream media? Hiding?

# 2009-04-13 at 22:33 pm

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# 2009-08-19 at 2:37 am

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