Reporters Without Borders: IRAN: Witnesses arrested or censored.

[SealLion]

Check it out:

Yesterday’s opposition demonstrations, which were dispersed with violence and loss of life, were followed today by raids by the intelligence ministry and Revolutionary Guards on opposition figures and news media and a new wave of hacker attacks on websites. Several journalists,.... have been arrested.

The media that desires to report truths is under attack. Again.

“The authorities want to silence the witnesses of the crackdown in order to continue committing atrocities with complete impunity,”......

That is sad news. Journalists getting pressured to be silent on ideas of opposition b/c they feel that things could be better for the country. But the country's leader and his henchmen obviously like things the way they are.

,.... the editor of Kaleme.org (opposition leader Mirhossein Moussavi’s official website), was also arrested at his Tehran home today and taken to an unknown place of detention.

Who knows what's happening with him there.
Torture??

It is not uncommon for journalists to face torture of either themselves or have their families threatened in regions where there is more autonomy rather than democracy.

We, living in the western hemisphere are fortunate to at least have some semblance of democracy. Even though democratic functions of various democratic states are being eroded.
Nevertheless....

At the same time, plain-clothes men... raided the headquarters of the weekly Irandokhte ( a newspaper, I imagine) , confiscating all of its computers....

censorship and eventual control of information. That's what that act was leading to.

Several Internet Service Providers have meanwhile been cutting connections. The level of disruption yesterday was unprecedented: most independent or opposition websites were rendered inaccessible within Iran as a result of systematic attacks coming from “unidentified servers.”

again...censorship and the denial of information available to those people who would have wanted to know what's going on.

Several Tehran sources told Reporters Without Borders it was possible to demonstrate that these hacker attacks were being organised by the Iranian authorities and from Revolutionary Guard servers. The country’s main ISPs depend on the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI), a company that was bought by the Revolutionary Guards in September

There.
Now we have an idea of who those 'unidentified servers' were as mentioned.

Reporters Sans Frontières - Witnesses of yesterday?s bloodbath arrested or censored

enjoy the short and fairly interesting read on censorship and control of the media.
IT's not just in Europe, North America, Asia, and South America.
Censorship is everywhere.

[slikrapid]

i'd be careful to claim it was an internal censorship event, since we know that iran is currently in the crosshairs of the usa and could be its next attack target - therefore it is expected to be under pressure & blamed for all kinds of valid and also invalid (staged) events/incidents, and you can be sure they have already been infiltrated by western intelligence agencies that will stop at nothing to achieve their aims

an example of such a (probably) staged event in iran (probably by their adversaries) is the case of a 'shot' female teen demonstrator in the streets of teheran

http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthre...threadid=13289

an attack on a country needs to be justified and the public needs to be supportive of it (through false or exaggerated propaganda), examples:

- the beginning of every world war and for some countries entering the war had staged events to provoke/justify it (examples: sinking of lusitania or attack on pearl harbor)
- staged attack on usa forces in the bay/gulf of tonkin for the vietnam war
- false teen witness (babies thrown out of incubators lie) for the kuwait war
- non-existent weapons of mass destruction for the iraqi war
- staged 9/11 for the 'war on terror' and afghanistan occupation

and the list goes on and on