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Citizen Journalism in Iran, We Go Ahead!

April 26th, 2007Kamangir (Iran)

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As you might know, the Islamic Republic has started a summer veil program to face “immodesty”. The conduct of this event has caused distress and objection all over the Iranian blogestan. For example, female bloggers have started a game titled “does everyone have to wear Chador?” At the middle of this social unrest, one picture has become a legend. Titled “Let’s all go to heaven“, Maryam Majd published a set of photographs, among which was the begging-kid picture shown above, which I pointed at previously as well (link). This picture has been mentioned of, and even copied in, many other blogs. Doing a very hasty search I found these: The Spilled Fragrance, Lalipo, Long Live Iran, Cold, Masih. No surprise they fear blogging this much. Now there is a video of Police brutality.

One Response to “Citizen Journalism in Iran, We Go Ahead!”

  1. Fear of blogging.. crackdown on bloggers… videos of police brutality, sounds like Egypt to me.

    (Speaking of which, worldwide Free Kareem rallies take place tomorrow. 11 capital cities involved!)

    Keep up the good work Arash.

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