354 Mediated Publics
25.ee http://www.iritn.com/?action=show&type=news&id=12187 or http:// S
http://www.wit.ir/hamayesh/detailnews.asp?id=915.
26.ordan Halevi (pen name), “The Iranian Weblog Research Project: J
Survey Results,” unpublished, 2006. See Farid Pouya, “Interview
with Jordan Halvei, a Canadian Researcher on Iranian Blogs,” Global
Voices, 7 November 2006, http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/07/
interview-with-jordan-halevi-a-canadian-researcher-on-iranian-blogs.
27.ojjat ol Eslam Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Khatami’s vice president, has been H
blogging since 2003. He is known as one of the first clerics and politicians to
enter this sphere. Since that time, he has become one of the most famous and
serious bloggers in Weblogistan. His blog is at http://www.webneveshteha.com.
28.ee Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi, S “Blogging from Qom, behind walls and
veils,” The Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
28 (2008): 235–249.
- OpenNet Initiative, Internet Filtering in Iran, 6.
30.ee Change for Equality, http://we-change.org. Also see Feminist School S
[madreseh-ye femenῑstῑ], http://www.femschool.net/. - See Women's Field, http://www.meydaan.com/.
32.or example, Afsaneh Norouzi, Kobra Rahmanpour and Nazanine Fathi F
were accused of the murder of their rapists, and a young, mentally retarded
girl, Leila Nekai, the victim of several rapes since she was eight years old,
was arrested and condemned to death for prostitution. All these sentences
have been suspended, and the women have been released. Nazanine Fathi
was assisted by Nazanin Afshar Jam (Miss World Canada 2003, a woman of
Iranian origin), who collected, with the aid of Weblogistan, 350,000 signa-
tures to call for her release. - Sina Motalebi’s blog “Webgard” was erased after his arrest.
34.hmad Batebi (born 1977 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian student who has A
been imprisoned since the Iranian student rally in July 1999. During the
protests in the areas surrounding Tehran University, Batebi held up a
bloodied shirt belonging to a fellow student who had been beaten by the
Basij paramilitaries. The image spread quickly and ended up on the cover
of The Economist magazine. After the publication in The Economist, Batebi
was detained and sentenced to death on charges relating to “endangering
national security” following a closed-door trial by a Revolutionary Court
in Tehran. His death sentence was later commuted to a fifteen-year prison