The March 18 Movement was born out of a tragedy. On this day in 2009, Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger and journalist, died in Evin Prison in Tehran. This day, in memorial to Omid Reza, is dedicated to all bloggers at risk around the world.
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We’d like to thank our friends at Bureaucrash for making this rally possible, and for their consistent support for Kareem, a jailed Egyptian blogger! Watch the video here: Another rally happened in Bern, Switzerland to support Kareem.Here are the photos. ...
The Free Kareem Campaign is an important partner of OR318...
A group of Iranian bloggers decided to add “Free Hossein Derakhshan” to the names of their blog for one week. November 1, 2009 was the one-year anniversary of the arrest of the Iranian blogger, Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan.
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OR318, thanks to you, has climbed to the second place in Think Social Awards face to big competitors. We have one more day and we should get first place. Please leave comments too. It is important. THankssss
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OR318 is nominated for an award needing your votes, facing competitors with thousands and millons members, we have 2 days LET's DO IT: http://think-social.org/thinksocial-awar
ThinkSocial Awards: Remembering Omid Reza “Let the first blogger to die in prison be the last” | Thi
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VOTE Name: Remembering Omid Reza Let the first blogger to die in prison be the last Nominated Category: Individual (Omid Reza, Iranian
Digiactive informs us that in last 12 months at least 15 bloggers have been arrested in Vietnam.
Reporters Without Bordes warned that Iranian authorities continue to persecute bloggers and jail them. According to RSF, Ali Pirhasanlou, a blogger and journalist got arrested last week.
Shiva Nazar Ahari, human rights activist and blogger is out of jail. She had been arrested after 12th of June presidential election.
Somayeh Tohidloo, a female reformist blogger walked free from jail today after being in prison for 71 days. Read more here.
In the court Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who appeared wearing prisoner’s pyjamas, looked weak and seemed to have lost weight. Read more and see his photos before arrest and after arrest.
Hengameh Shahidi,a female blogger, journalist and political activist has been arrested for two weeks.
According to some reports from Iran Ghovanllo Ghajar, a blogger and journalist is out of jail. Mohammad Yazdanpanah, a reformist journalist and blogger got arrested. His blog is Boyeh Khak in Persian. At present more than ten bloggers are in prison in Iran.
Those supporting detained video bloggers and youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli have launched a campaign to encourage short video blogs in their support on YouTube.
Global Voices reports that youth activist, prominent blogger imprisoned after trial behind closed doors.
According to news sites “the head of Iran’s judiciary called on Sunday for the prosecution of people working for increasingly influential anti-establishment satellite TV channels and websites.” It means that Iranian people who write in a collective blog, sign a petition, campaign in FaceBook can b...
