Iran Blogger

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  Google Deletes Accounts With Ties to Iran on YouTube, Other Sites

  Google announced Thursday that it deleted 58 accounts with ties to Iran on its video platform YouTube and its other sites.

• Iran Policeman Faces Jail, Lashes for Killing Blogger

  An Iranian policeman has been sentenced to three years in jail, 74 lashes and two years' internal exile for the unpremeditated killing of a blogger in 2012, media reported on Saturday.

• Blogger's death stirs political hornet's nest in Iran

  There was little about Sattar Beheshti that made him stand out in a working-class suburb south of Tehran called Robat Karim.

• Long jail term for Iran's 'Blogfather'

  An Iranian news Web site reported on Tuesday that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian-Canadian blogger  who was arrested two years ago when he returned from self-imposed exile to live in Iran, was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison by a court in Tehran.As Cyrus Farivar, an Iranian-American journalist, noted on his blog, Iran's Ma...

• Iran sentences blogger to 19 years in prison

  An Iranian news website says a court has sentenced a well-known Canadian-Iranian blogger to more than 19 years in prison.The conservative website, Mashreghnews.ir, which is close to Iran's presidential office, says Hossein Derakhshan was convicted on charges of cooperation with hostile countries, spreading propaganda against the ruling establishmen...