...secret agents have detained several web technicians who have served or helped the popular reformist websites, Emrooz and Rooydad, in any way and apparently, by getting the hosting accounts' passwords, shut the servers down and deleted all the information on them.
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Editor: Myself (Hossein Derakhshan) 23.Aug.04
Reza Khatami, chief of the major reformist party, Jebhe-ye Mosharekat, has protested to the new wave of pressure in a public letter to the vice-president, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who is in charge of the legal and parliamentary relations and a is an Internet savvy user himself. The letter now appears on one of the remaining addresses, Rooydad.com, which is not under control of the agents.
Frustrating news is that no news agency or paper has reported on this in English. However, among the reliable Persian sources, BBC Persian has covered it.
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Editor: Myself (Hossein Derakhshan) 23.Aug.04
