Human Rights websites attacked

The Shiraz Association for the Protection of Human Rights in Iran has been formed because we believe that the right to a life without torture, rape, beatings, executions, repression, inequality and mass arrests for simply speaking our minds is fundamental to any human existence and that no human should have to suffer needlessly. Our objective is to enforce our government's compliance with its national and international commitments to safeguard human rights.

We begin this first post with highlighting the restrictions on freedom of expression in our country of Iran. On March 14 Fars News Agency reported that 29 websites were hacked by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. These websites contained information on Human Rights in Iran but were thought to be espionage sites by the government. One website called hra-iran.org was operated by a group calling itself Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) which included a report on 400 Iranian opposition protesters that were arrested on 4 November 2009, an Iranian holiday that marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The websites hacked were as follows:

EN-HRANA.COM
EN-HRANA.INFO
EN-HRANA.ORG
HRAICP.COM
HRAICP.INFO
HRAICP.NET
HRAICP.ORG
HRAIRAN.INFO
HRA-IRAN.INFO
HRA-IRAN.ORG
HRA-NA.INFO
HRANEWS.INFO
HRA-NEWS.INFO
HRA-NEWS1.INFO
HRA-NEWS2.INFO
HRA-NEWS3.INFO
HRA-NEWS4.INFO
HRA-NEWS5.INFO
K-RAFIEE.INFO
LC-HRA.COM
NEWS-HRA.INFO
RADIO-HRA.INFO
hra-iran.com
hra-news.org
hrairan.org
hra-iran.net
kamangar.info
hra-news.org
bsc-iran.org

This is just one example of the way information is being restricted in our country. The Iranian Government does not want people to know about the human rights abuses that are going on every day in Iran. Join in the dissemination of information...

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