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Iran: Facebook is ‘the most disgusting US spyware’

Hadi Nili — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:39:11 +0000

A high commander in Iran cyber police says Facebook is ‘the most disgusting spyware and the most dangerous warfare of the U.S.’ which is also ‘responsible for one third of divorces in Iran’.

Facebook and other famous social networking websites are blocked by Iranian authorities. They blame this services as ‘tools to promote unrest and in favor of regime change in Iran’.

Iran: 60% of Population Online

Hadi Nili — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:02:51 +0000

An organization affiliated with Iran’s government says 60 percent of Iranians are connected to the internet, 40 percent of them are young people in their 20s.
Iran’s “Center For Managing National Development Of Internet”, MATMA, says more than 45 millions are connected to the internet,almost 2.5 millions of them through their mobile devices.

Iran: ‘Tehran Has More Than 1 million Facebook Users’

Hadi Nili — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:55:19 +0000

The deputy parliament speaker says Tehran has ‘more than 1 million Facebook users’ and there are more than 200,000 in other big cities of Iran like Shiraz and Rasht. Hasan Aboutorabi regrets that ‘such a potential space is in the hands of our enemy and they deploy all of its capacities against us.’

Iran: Police Looks For ‘Smart Control’ over Social Networking Sites

Hadi Nili — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:05:55 +0000

Iran's police Commander in Chief, Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam says police is looking for ‘smart control’ over social networking websites. He believes this ‘smart control’ is better than a full blocking and people may use their 'useful parts'.

Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh on Hunger Strike in Prison

Hadi Nili — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:02:23 +0000

Iranian human rights activist, lawyer and Sakharov Prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on hunger strike for more than four weeks in reaction to the restrictions imposed on her family and the mistreatment of political prisoners by the Iranian authorities.

Nasrin's husband, Reza Khandan posted [fa] this update on Facebook on the evening of November 12, 2012, saying that her children were able to see her for the first time in 4 months.

Mr. Khandan wrote in this post:

Last night they called me from Evin prison and told me to bring the children to prison today. The children met their mother for minutes and out of the meeting hall in the presence of security officers. Unfortunately they did not allow me or any other person to accompany the children to the meeting point.

According to Mr. Khandan’s post, “Mehraveh, her teenager daughter, said her mother has lost weight and sometimes she goes to the health office of the prison.”

Iranians flooded the internet to show their support for the jailed lawyer.

Flower for Nasrin

Iranians have shown their support for her through on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Mohammad Reza Jalaeipour, a student activist currently based in London, suggested that supporters change their profile pictures to an image of a flower (Nasrin in Persian) on social networks in support of her hunger strike.

Nasrin wrote her defense on a “napkin”

Here is a video saying that Nasrin Stoudeh who defended several political prisoners, was not given the right to write her defense on paper. She wrote everything on a napkin.

The Internet is not the only place that Iranians talked about jailed lawyer, several demonstrations have been held outside Iran to protest against Stoudeh's detention.

Protest rally in front of Iranian embassy in Dublin, Ireland

Supporting Sotoudeh in New York

And Norway

A Stamp for Nasrin

Some Iranians in The Netherlands have printed stamps for Nasrin Sotoudeh with her mug shot picture on them.

Iran: Blogger's Family Asked To ‘Prepare A Grave’ For Him

Hadi Nili — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:12:33 +0000

Sources close to Iranian opposition say Sattar Beheshti, blogger and netizen, possibly died ‘due to tortures' while he was in detention. Beheshti got arrested last week in his home. His sister says “authorities asked us to prepare a grave for him and take his body tomorrow”.

Iran: Imprisoned Women Journalists And Netizens Risking Death

Hadi Nili — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:49:18 +0000

Reporters Without Borders is ‘very worried about the state of health of eight women prisoners of conscience who began a hunger strike five days ago in protest against inhuman and degrading jail conditions'. These prisoners include three journalists and netizens; Mahsa Amrabadi, Jila Bani Yaghoob and Shiva Nazar Ahari.

Iran: A Blogger in Danger

Hadi Nili — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:28:12 +0000

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced that they are concerned about the health of Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, the jailed writer of the blog “Iran Land’s Report”. RSF says according to blogger's family “he is in a critical condition, suffering from kidney failure and aggravated by a lack of medical treatment”.

Iran: Bloggers Urge Minister of Education to Resign

Hadi Nili — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:43 +0000

A bus in southwestern Iran overturned in southwestern Iran on Friday, October 19. Several Iranian bloggers urged the Minister of Education to resign as ‘a minimum reaction to this tragedy'. Iranian cyberspace accused the Iranian authorities for being irresponsible about the lives of people.

Iran: Police is censoring ‘in affiliation with Facebook’

Hadi Nili — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:36:57 +0000

Commander in chief of Iran cyber police insists that the authorities would prosecute those who ‘promote immorality and prostitution’ in social network websites. Kamal Hadianfar claims [fa] that Iranian police would ‘purify’ this social network ‘with collaboration of Facebook managers'. Major social networking services including Facebook and Twitter are blocked in Iran.

Iran: Internet influence 43 % with 32.7 million users

Hadi Nili — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:16:03 +0000

The official report on Internet status in Iran by March 2012 indicates the influence rate is 43 percent, with 32.7 million users nationwide, 14.3 millions (18.9 %) connected to GPRS on their cellphones as the most common connection type, 4.5 millions of them connected through broadband ADSL, and about 860 thousands have access to wimax connection.

Iran: Public wear influenced by social networking websites

Hadi Nili — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:10:48 +0000

A report from a state-run institute says 20 percent of women and 10 percent of men in Iran, choose their wear and public appearance due to the photos they see on social networking websites like Facebook, a deputy at Iran's ‘IT and digital media development center’ presented this report in Iran News TV.

Iran: ‘Zuckerberg should take action against insulting Islam’

Hadi Nili — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:00:33 +0000

The state-funded group, “The Islamic Revolution Council of IT and Digital Media Activists” have asked Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter to take action against those who ‘insult Islam’ in Facebook and prosecute them. They compared those who ‘insult Islam’ in Facebook to terrorist attacks in Iraq against Shia people and shrines.

Iran: Jailed lawyer plays with her son

Hadi Nili — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:54:14 +0000

In social networking websites Iranian users are sharing a video footage of jailed lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, when she tries to play with her 4 years old son through a cabin window in a prison visit. Mrs. Sotoudeh, a human rights activist in Iran, is sentenced to 11 years in prison and authorities have denied furlough leave for her.

Iran: #RememberIran in election anniversary

Hadi Nili — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:53:05 +0000

Iranian users in Twitter are sharing their ideas, memories, and feelings about Iranian 10th presidential election in June 2009, which resulted in protests called The Green Movement under the hash-tag #RememberIran. There are some tweets reminding that two protests leaders have been under house arrest for 480 days.