A Sign of Things to Come…
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- January 27th, 2012
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- Iran180
Iran’s judiciary has detained at least ten bloggers and journalists in the past two weeks. While the arrest and detention of journalists is not uncommon in Iran, these instances have added significane because of upcoming Parliamentary elections in March. Human Rights Watch has the details:
This latest wave of arrests of journalists and bloggers comes at a time when authorities have redoubled their efforts to control the flow of information on the internet. On January 4, local newspapers printed new regulations issued by Iran’s new cyber police unit that gave internet cafes 15 days to install security cameras and begin collecting personal information from customers for tracking purposes.
Internet users and rights groups are also concerned that an increase in recent interruptions to internet connectivity and blocked sites may be evidence that Iran is testing a national intranet. In March 2011, authorities announced that they were funding a multi-million-dollar project to build a “halal” – or legitimate – internet in Iran to protect the country from socially and moral corrupt content.
Government sensitivity toward the role of the internet has been particularly sharp in the lead up to the parliamentary elections, including the judiciary’s threat that anyone who called for a boycott would be subject to prosecution.
“Unfortunately it seems the only lesson authorities learned from the popular protests that followed the disputed election 2009 is that the free flow of information is an existential threat to their ability to rule absolutely,” Stork said.
These efforts by the Iranian regime to stifle the free flow of information are disturbing. Sadly, we can expect more of the same over the next two months.
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