Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006
News from Iran - Roozonline - Report by : Ms. Sara Esfahani

Based on the research by Ministry of Information : Blogs will be categorized to 3 security classification !

News sources reporting from Tehran that the Ministry of Information , had research on Iranian weblog , those inside and ouside of Iran and their view points . The regime divided them to : " Anti - regime" , "Pro- regime " and " Neutral " . These research will be used as a bases for dealing and filtering the persian blogs .

Recently the regime contacted those weblog writers whose weblog is against the regime and warned them about the content of their weblog and have told them that their weblog has becom problematic and therefore is going to be filtered . Also , during the last weeks some of the weblogs that are outside of Iran and are written about political, sexual and public issues have been filtered inside the country . Because of this, the weblog writers in order to continue to their writing have changed their weblog address .

During the last two years , the weblog writers also joined the writers, journalists and intellectuals and are arrested and detained because of writing their opinions .At presnt Mr. Mojtaba Samienejad and Arash Sigarchi are the two bloggers who are in prison because of the content of their blog and also many others have been summoned to the court .

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IRAN WATCH CANADA
Link to this news in Farsi :
http://r0ozonline.com/01newsstory/014349.shtml