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Yesterday I spoke to a friend who told me the blogger and journalist Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan had been arrested in Tehran, Iran, November 1st 2008. The charges against him still...
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- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoAccording to Jahan News website , Iranian blogger, Hossein Derakhshan (aka Hoder), a prolific blogger often described as the godfather of the Iranian blogosphere, has been arrested In Tehran. Hossein returned to Iran about three weeks ago and is ...
- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoBefore he disappeared, Hossein Derakhshan might have been Toronto's most famous blogger. For a time, he was held in such high regard that when renowned cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar, a fellow Iranian expatriate, drew a cartoon to honour him, he ...
- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoMan known as the Blogfather held in the Iranian capital on suspicion of spying for Israel A prominent Iranian blogger has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel after visiting the country with the aim of being "a bridge between ...
- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoHosting Matters , a Florida based web-hosting provider, has recently decided to terminate Hossein Derakhshan 's influential website on the basis of a defamation allegation by Mehdi Khalaji, an Iranian fellow at the Washington Institute for the Near ...
- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoUpdate on the case of Jean Ramses Anleu Fernández, aka " jeanfer " (shown handcuffed, above), the Guatemalan Twitter user arrested for a tweet related to the assassination of a whistleblower attorney who sought to expose corruption in a state-...
- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoAmid protests in the streets and on social networks calling for Guatemala's president to step down after the assasination of a whistleblower attorney, Guatemalan police have arrested a Twitter user for "inciting panic" through tweets. In the capital ...
- Submitted By: eriks | 6 months agoAs supporters of the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi celebrate her release from Evin prison in Tehran, campaigns to free two other, less high-profile prisoners continue online. Last month, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a ...
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