Censorship

Today is the first anniversary of Iranian blogger Omid Reza’s death. For those of you who don’t know who Omid is, this is an excerpt from the entry we created on Wikipedia: Omid Reza Mir Sayafi (also Omidreza Mirsayafi), a 29-year old Iranian blogger and journalist died in Evin Prison in Tehran on March 18, 2009. In December, he was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging [...]

Transcript of Turkish Prime Minister Erodgen’s famous ‘one minute’ speech at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland

This popular opposition blog was hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army on Monday but is now working again:
Papa Khoshdamagh
Its not clear why the Iranian Cyber Army chose the blog for its most recent attack. Maybe it was because of cartoons of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad?

The Internet has become a powerful international tool for freedom of speech. It enables users anywhere in the world to foster debate and provide a forum to express different points of view. In doing so, the ability of internet users to transcend international boundaries and bypass most government censorship efforts and restrictions on internet [...]

I had the opportunity recently to read the Manifesto of the Green Movement in Iran. It’s quite an impressive document; very reminiscent, in many ways, of American democracy, as spelled out in such historic documents as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Thomas Jefferson would have approved. The trouble is, however, as the [...]

One night, three friends in Khartoum , Sudan acted on their dissapointment. They wanted to encourage people to register to vote and then, vote in the general elections, so they started “Girifna”

Shahin Najafi, an influential Iranian rapper has released his first solo album “Illusion”. He is the most prominent Persian protesting rapper. His main lyrical topics are society, politics and religion. According to Wikipedia, he studied sociology in university but failed to obtain a degree, because he felt that he learns more from society than classrooms. [...]

In 2009 with the help of Mideast Youth, I was able to launch a blogging site with 2 other Iraqi activists to use it as a platform of free expression for few Iraqi young bloggers, we called it Iraqi Streets. Since we start work we work in small circle of people and I hope we [...]

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While there’re thousands of articles and Photos shared around the net, just few have put their opinions on fair basis, most of them often using half truths and inducing in minds certain vocabulary.
In Iran’s colorful political arena, The green color got more attention from the western Media, maybe because they liked the candidate behind it [...]