Iran cracks down on Internet: rights watchdog
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Iran is cracking down on Internet communications, one of the country's last forums for free speech and a crucial tool for local social activists, Human Rights Watch said.
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TEHRAN -- Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube.com, and a media rights group warned yesterday that Internet censorship in the Islamic state is on the rise.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's president called yesterday for an investigation into journalists' allegations that they were tortured into confessing to charges such as insulting sacred beliefs and endangering national security after publishing articles critical of conservatives in the government. About 20 journalists from print, Internet, and other media outlets have been detained in Iran since a crackdown on the proreform press ...
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Tehran - Iran has become the latest country to edge towards ditching the ubiquitous Microsoft computer operating system in favour of the open-source Linux solution, even if its refusal to abide by copyright laws means that the Islamic republic does not
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PARIS -- Adolescent violence linked to video-upload sites on the Internet is inspiring governments around the world to crack down on cyber-bullying, with arrests, fines, and jail sentences.
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WINDOWS IS &#39;free&#39; in Iran, but even there is an increasing move towards Linux, according to an AFP report. Apparently, because Iran refuses to abide by international copyright laws, pirated copies of Windows make the product free and everyone uses it.
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Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says that censorship by the authorities in her country is getting stricter.
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Iran's judicial authorities have launched investigations based on fresh evidence in the cases of two Iranian-Americans detained on spying charges, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi announced over ten persons have been taken into custody for divulging classified information to both America and Israel concerning Tehranâs nuclear program.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com, and a press rights group warned on Tuesday that Internet censorship in the Islamic state is on the rise.
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Iranian police have closed down 24  Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours,  detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral  behavior in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.
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A tool is created that can circumvent government censorship of the web, researchers report.
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The Chinese governmentâs censorship of some Web sites with no discernible political content has fostered a backlash among Internet users.
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Ireland will block calls to 13 countries, most of them tiny islands in the Pacific, to crack down on a new scam in which internet users&#39; log-on connections are secretly diverted through rip-off telephone numbers.
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Text of press release by London-based Amnesty International website on 6 June  Amnesty International today (6 June) warned that the Internet 'could change beyond all recognition' unless action is taken to stop the 'Virus of Internet repression' eroding freedom of expression online.
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More than 100 people have been arrested in the largest global crackdown to date on identity theft, hacking and other Internet-based crimes, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday.
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WEBSITES CLOSE to Iran&#39;s leading reformist party have been blocked by religious hardliners in the police bureau of public morals.