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Johnstech

August 21, 2006

Blogging in Iran

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Iranian authorities are stepping up arrests and pressure on popular bloggers as part of a wider Internet clampdown launched after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president last year.

Thousands of websites have been blocked, and a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer says at least 50 bloggers have been detained since last year.

At the same time, Iran's president has started his own blog.

Guest: Hossein Derakhshan, a popular Iranian-born blogger now living in Toronto