Iranian 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.

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...

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.

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...