mardi 23 août 2016

Cyber Police admits arresting 95 for activities in social media

 Commander of Ardabil's Internet Police, FATA, admitted that youths have been arrested allegedly for internet crimes. Hafez Sharifi said the average age of those arrested is between 19 and 27. He said, "In the past year, more than 95 people were arrested in this area. We opened the files for the convicts and they were turned in to the judicial authorities."


Noting that the force has "complete knowledge of the cyber space", Sharifi said that they are trying to prevent "a number of criminals" from going wild on the internet by promptly identifying them. He said, "Although dissemination of falsities, insults and accusations comprise the larger share of violations in this area, but we are monitoring the cyber space 24 hours a day to gain full knowledge and prevent such immoralities from taking place."
In May, a police commander of the regime in Isfahan, central Iran, announced that the Cyber Police (FATA) had arrested a 15-year-old boy who had aimed to launch a channel in virtual social networks.

Jahangir Karimi announced: "After the final investigation, the 15-year-old teenager from Isfahan was identified quickly and summoned to the police."
Karimi’s remarks were reported on May 26 by the website of the official state broadcaster IRIB.

The Iranian regime’s Cyber Police (FATA) are responsible for monitoring cyber activities. Their most notorious case was that of blogger Sattar Beheshti who was killed under torture while in the regime's custody in November 2012.

Earlier this year, the regime’s repressive Cyber Police announced that they had arrested two young webloggers in Rasht and Roudbar, northern Iran, charging them with “computer crimes.”

The head of the FATA police in Gilan Province, Colonel Iraj Mohammadkhani, announced the arrests on May 3, adding that "[illegal] production, distribution and access to any data, software or any type of electronic devices are regarded as computer crimes and anyone committing such acts will be sentenced from 91 days to one year of imprisonment, or will have to pay a fine of five million to 20 million Rials (U.S. $166 to $662), or both."

As recently as March 2016, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Iran is still one of the world’s five biggest prisons for media personnel and is ranked 173rd out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.

Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)previously said: "Freedom of the press and freedom of expression are non-existent in Iran under the mullahs' regime. Not only does the regime severely clamp down on journalists for reporting on subjects considered sensitive by the mullahs, it even goes so far as arresting and torturing to death dissident bloggers such as Sattar Beheshti.”

“The regime's draconian measures against news organizations have become more aggressive since Hassan Rouhani took office as President in 2013. Several international human rights organizations have attested to this reality," Mr. Gobadi added.

Iran's fundamentalist regime earlier this year announced that it had set a one-year deadline for international social media, in particular Telegram, to hand over data on their Iranian users.

The official state news agency IRNA reported that the decision was taken on May 28, at a session of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, a committee on the use of cyberspace headed by the mullahs' President Hassan Rouhani that serves as the regime's IT regulator.

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