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When everyone and everything else is shut down from talking, when there is no way to tell others what’s happening, the Internet is a difficult door to close. Here, from the blog Nahkana, is a testament to the ability of bloggers to do the work of reporters.
http://nakhana.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/
And here is a youtube video, one of many:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsZQaU90J-0&feature=featured&skipcontrinter=1
What is the price of saying what you think online? IN some countries it means prison and for some people, it means death. Here are accounts of a young Iranian blogger who the government says took his own life, and whose family says just the oppposite.
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/101823/
http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.cfm?objectid=3D2BF6F3-3048-676E-268CF7BFBFEF9FB0
from a human rights activist in Farsi
http://hra-iran.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=731:254&catid=143:107&Itemid=201
the same report in English:
http://hra-iran.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=761:351&catid=66:304&Itemid=293
