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Iran Escalates Campaign Against Online Expression
- srl 15y ago> Vahid Asghari, a 24-year-old student in India, was arrested on May 11, 2008 at Tehran Airport and accused of hosting websites with “pornographic” content critical of the government. Wait, what? That's gotta be a new genre. Or, the Iranian government decided that "critical of the government" didn't sound bad enough, and prepended "porn" to shore up the charges.