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Iranian jailed over Weblog - MARGARET WENTE, Globe and Mail


On April 19, Hossein Derakhshan, a young Iranian living in Toronto, got
an alarming e-mail from a friend of his in Tehran. The friend, Sina
Montallebi, wrote that he had been summoned to appear before the
religious police. The next day, Mr. Montallebi became the first person
in history to be jailed for the crime of keeping a Weblog. "They did it
to frighten people," says Mr. Derakhshan, who came to Canada two years
ago.

The story of the Internet and the mullahs is a fascinating study in how
technology can subvert even the most repressive of regimes.