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Apr
According to Amir Kabir, a Persian student news site, Alireza Firouzi, who was arrested on April 13, has been freed.
noneAccording to Amir Kabir, a Persian student news site, Alireza Firouzi, who was arrested on April 13, has been freed.
noneUpdate: Further reporting from Hamid indicates that Alireza was involved with a group of university students in Iran who used a blog to levy sexual harassment charges against their vice president. The blog has now been erased, of course, but a video of the VP being confronted by his students is up at Hamid’s post at GV.
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Hamid Tehrani informs us that yet another Iranian blogger has been arrested.
2 comGhomaar, 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.