Maziar Bahari !!!

Maziar Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian playwright, film-maker and journalist. During the 2009 election protests, Bahari was arrested, held in solitary confinement, and beaten for crimes such as insulting the Supreme Leader and undermining the security of the state.
Bahari was in prison for 118 days and after that he was sentenced for 13.5 years in prison .
This is only because he was supporting Iranian rights to have a the freedom of internet and speech .
Here there is a video from him that is talking about the freedom of internet in Iran .

Iran Internet Law

ISP is The first Internet Service Providers in Iransince 1994. In 2001 the law stated that Iran was to control all ISP's. The main state media entity is the Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI). The Data Communication Company of Iran (DCI) is the chief ISP, the provider by which most other ISP's get their Internet connectivity. The DCI is a subsidiary of TCI, and run by the newly re-named Ministry for Information and Communication Technology (“ICT”), which is responsible for TCI policy.

All private ISPs must be vcontrol by both DCI and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. ISPs must install filters for Web sites and e-mail. The TCI in 2001 issued regulations requiring ISPs to filter all materials presumed immoral or contrary to state interests. The goal of filtering is to block all access to "non-Islamic" sites. There have been many cases of bloggers and other Internet users being arrested, and some sent to prison, and even tortured and killed. In fact, a group of school children were recently taken into custody and held for several days, charged with arranging romantic rendezvous.

On October 11, 2006, the Government ruled that high-speed service is illegal, undoubtedly to fight the downloading of subversive materials. Unfortunately, this directly contradicts the Government's “Five Year-Development Plan” that had as a goal the creation of widespread access to broadband service. Despite the ruling, broadband is available in many businesses. Overall, Iranian Internet use has grown more quickly than in any other Middle Eastern country since 2,000 ..........

http://www.i-policy.org/2009/12/iranian-internet-law.html

I just put a part of article that explains the internet law in Iran and the sections .
I think Internet law in Iran is totally one sided , and the only side that has the benefit is the government .
You can't see anything about users privacy . The law is all about political issues and religious issues .
The punishments are only for those against the government .

Siemens and Nokia case !

Tehran (AsiaNews/Zamaneh) – Isa Saharkhiz, an Iranian political prisoner, has filed an official complaint with the US Federal Court against Nokia Siemens and its subsidiaries, for complicity with the Iranian government in the violation of human rights by the “sale and provision of surveillance technology and equipment for monitoring of wireless networks and the internet to Iran”.
http://www.speroforum.com/a/38405/Iran---Nokia-Siemens-Tehrans-accomplice-in-violating-human-rights

Recently some IT companies are trying to help Iranian government to monitor the wireless activities in Iran . They sale the equipment of that purpose and receive high amount of money.
I believe that this kind of equipment is necessary for government to protect the online transactions and to detect the crimes , but not to monitor the privacy of people just for political aims .
Only those countries can use this equipment that they are developed enough to support the human rights .
The international law organizations must monitor the IT companies and their activities to avoid such shameful activities that happens just for MONEY !

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi a Cyber Crimes' Victim (2)

I was searching in internet to find more details about what had happened to this beautiful actress .
I found a link that explains after every one watched that clip , the parliament passed a law that says if any of famous actors or actresses found in a a porno the penalty will be execution .
I was totally shocked !!!
How come ? In producing a porno clip there are lots of people like directors , photographers, camera man and so on . Then why the only person who get the penalty is the actor ?
Another thing is that when you can see the personal movies that people make in their private , in people hands , who has the responsibility of this crimes ?
Where is the law ? what if I found my personal birthday party with my friends and family in people laptops and mobile phones ?
Even when you walk in the street in Tehran some times you can hear that some one is selling the porno CDs , and encourage people to buy that by saying that it's an Iranian clip . Hidden sexy cameras and like this .
Unfortunately these clips are spreading day by day and no body cares about the distributors and producers of this shameful products .
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/195177

Cyber Wars In Iran

Recently there was a conference in Tehran about the 8 month cyber-warfare against opposition websites .
The following link shows what discussed at this conference .

What I recieved from the issues in this conffeernce is that Iranian government are using the young and smart software engineers to work as hackers and also to find the internal hackers and protect the government cyber space .
What they did from 2005 till now are amazing . If u have a look at link that I mentioned you will find that they are totally strong , they attacked to several huge websites like NASA and also they discovered internal hackers who were responsible for cyber-theft of five million dollars from the banks.
In one point of view it would be great because people will be be sure that the cyber space is secure an they can do all transactions online . But in another point of view it can be an activity against human right in Iran to ignore all disagreement against the government.

The new Iran internet law is suspicious !!!

First lets have a look at these news :

Iran has passed a new internet law that experts fear will make information on internet users more readily available to the authorities.

Press TV, a news channel funded by the Iranian government, said on Monday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's president, has issued an order for the implementation of the law.

According to Press TV, the cyber law would provide internet users with "more security", as internet service providers are required to save all data sent and received by their clients for at least three months.

But critics of the legislation say the stored data would enable the authorities to monitor internet users, including anonymous bloggers opposed to the regime in the Islamic republic.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/2009720132832678525.html

The new Internet law seems to be a tool for creating more security for internet users , but who can believe that government suddenly mentioned that security of websites and blogs are not satisfiable and they have to think about that ?

Some experts believe that this new law can be a tool for monitoring the internet users to put more limitation on that , as the law says that information must keep for 3 month after the data sent or received by the internet clients to the internet service providers .

Internet proxy users in Iran

Using the internet proxy is increasing day by day through the internet users in Iran , internet censorship is the main reason behind that specially after the election , even people in Iran cannot get connected to the Facebook , It's because of the policy that Facebook has , it allows to every one to does any activity through the Facebook . One of these activities is political activities that Iranian did during the election and after that .

Following link shows 2 diagrams that explain the increasing of using the proxy from one of servers before and after the election .

http://www.how-to-hide-ip.info/2009/07/01/internet-users-in-iran-use-tor-to-circumvent-censorship/