Committee to Protect Bloggers

According to our friend Hamid Tehrani, Persian editor for Global Voices, Iranian blogger Reza Valizadeh was arrested today. Reza runs, or ran, a site called Baznegar.
Some bloggers, says Hamid, believe that Reza was the first blogger to reveal Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s overpriced dogs that his security team uses. They were said to have purchased […]

According to the Iranian Political Prisoners Association:
Soheil Asafi a blogger and a journalist was released on Saturday October 6th 2007 from Evin Prison after two months of imprisonment. He was released on 100 Million Toman bail.
Soheil Asafi was arrested on August 4th 2007. On that day he was summoned to court, where he was interrogated […]

Calling it an “error” the briefly-blocked search engine Google is usable again in Iran. One of the problems with filtering software, according to ONI reports, is the difficulty, perhaps impossibility, in not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The filtering controls are ham-fisted and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to surgically ban say pornography […]

A group of Iranians has created a group called Iran Proxy. This group’s goal is to fight the pervasive censorship of their country by creating proxy websites (sites that allow a reader to get around a filtering block) as well as educate Iranians on various ways to safely navigate the obstacles in the way of […]

Always striving against China to be in the vanguard of online repression, Iran has banned the popular social network, according to Hamsa via Mideast Youth.
Facebook is the latest social media casualty in Iran, along with Flickr, YouTube and a number of blogging platforms.
Hamsa points out there is, ironically, a Facebook group devoted to ending censorship […]