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06-20-2014, 04:02 AM
Iran Doles Out Prison Sentences to Tech Bloggers, or 'Enemy Cyber Activists'
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Iran has sentenced a group of tech bloggers to a combined 36 years in prison for espionage and working with foreign media.
A court sentenced the group, who all worked for the tech gadgets site Narenji (http://narenji.ir/), to prison terms ranging from 1.5 to 11 years, a source close to the bloggers told Mashable. News of their sentencing was first reported by the local outlet Sardabir News (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kermandadgostari.ir%2FDefault.a spx%3Ftabid%3D2626%26mid%3D4785%26ctl%3DArticleVie w%26articleId%3D85634&edit-text=).
See also: Google Play Is Accessible Again in Iran (But Don't Get Too Excited) (http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/google-play-unblocked-iran/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The original report didn't include names, but it did name the company that owns Narenji: Govashir. The prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kerman was quoted as saying 11 people were arrested for "cyber activity" and "content production for opposition media" and "some of them" are **w in jail after confessing. The prosecutor also said some of them had connections to BBC Persian, according to a translation by Gissou Nia, the executive director of the The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC (http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/)). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/iran-tech-bloggers-prison/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Iran has sentenced a group of tech bloggers to a combined 36 years in prison for espionage and working with foreign media.
A court sentenced the group, who all worked for the tech gadgets site Narenji (http://narenji.ir/), to prison terms ranging from 1.5 to 11 years, a source close to the bloggers told Mashable. News of their sentencing was first reported by the local outlet Sardabir News (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kermandadgostari.ir%2FDefault.a spx%3Ftabid%3D2626%26mid%3D4785%26ctl%3DArticleVie w%26articleId%3D85634&edit-text=).
See also: Google Play Is Accessible Again in Iran (But Don't Get Too Excited) (http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/google-play-unblocked-iran/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The original report didn't include names, but it did name the company that owns Narenji: Govashir. The prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kerman was quoted as saying 11 people were arrested for "cyber activity" and "content production for opposition media" and "some of them" are **w in jail after confessing. The prosecutor also said some of them had connections to BBC Persian, according to a translation by Gissou Nia, the executive director of the The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC (http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/)). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/iran-tech-bloggers-prison/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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