Bahrain: newspaper ban lifted
The 21 June ban of Arabic Gulf News has been lifted. The Bahrain newspaper came under fire after criticising the Iranian leadership. Read more
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Iran: academics held
Seventy university professors who met with opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi in Tehran have been arrested.
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Staff of Mousavi newspaper arrested
Twenty-five members of the staff of Kalemeh Sabz, a newspaper owned by presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, have been arrested in Tehran.
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Habitat uses Iran election tags to generate Twitter hits
Furniture company Habitats Twitter account used hashtags such as #Iranelection and #Mousavi in order to ensure the company’s messages regarding their products would be seen by a mass audience. Twitter members use hashtags to help them narrow their searches and the use of Twitter has proved an invaluable way of getting information out of the heavily censored country. Read more here