The Iranian regime has arrested at least 24 Internet users in the last two weeks in the regime's latest clampdown on online activity.
In the city of Rafsanjan, the mayor announced that seven women and one man were arrested on November 23 on unspecified charges.
On December 4, the prosecutor’s assistant in the city of Kerman verified the arrest of 16 cyber activists, the state-run Fars news agency reported.
He accused them of participating in an elaborate press network, acting against national security by cooperating with foreign networks, especially opposition groups and designing and producing pages for anti-government websites.
A day earlier, an active technology website reported in that it would no longer updating its site because its writers and technical members had all been arrested by the Revolutionary Guards corps, who also recently arrested five Facebook 'activists'.
The regime has accused all these internet users of provoking the public by creating disorder and acting against national security.
In the city of Rafsanjan, the mayor announced that seven women and one man were arrested on November 23 on unspecified charges.
On December 4, the prosecutor’s assistant in the city of Kerman verified the arrest of 16 cyber activists, the state-run Fars news agency reported.
He accused them of participating in an elaborate press network, acting against national security by cooperating with foreign networks, especially opposition groups and designing and producing pages for anti-government websites.
A day earlier, an active technology website reported in that it would no longer updating its site because its writers and technical members had all been arrested by the Revolutionary Guards corps, who also recently arrested five Facebook 'activists'.
The regime has accused all these internet users of provoking the public by creating disorder and acting against national security.
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