Shadow of threat for webloggers
Iranian hardliner judiciary system has started a series of quick attacks on webloggers and reformist websites. After closing down (filtering) the reformist news websites or Roudad, Emrooz and Bamdad, they have now turned to arresting individuals who have been helping in technical support of these websites. Sometime ago, in an attempt to threaten and silence Sina Motallebi, a weblogger who was once arrested in Iran and now lives in the Netherlands, they have arrested his father, Saeed Motallebi. None of these detentions have been officially announced or confirmed by the judiciary system and no one knows where they are kept. Even the President's advisor whose son is detained does not know what has happened to them. Hossein Derakhshan has give a list of links referring to this issue with a good coverage of the story.