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The last time Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhhshan sent a tweet, Twitter had just 3.5 million monthly users, Facebook was closing in on MySpace and President Obama was still just a senator from Illinois.
That was Oct. 23, 2008:
is hanging out in Tehran, frustrated by slow internet connection, but generally impressed. He LOVES living in Tehran again.
— Hossein Derakhhshan (@h0d3r) October 23, 2008
Days later, Derakhhshan was arrested in Tehran, charged with insulting religious leaders, cooperating with "hostile states" and publishing "propaganda" that the Iranian regime didn't particularly like, and eventually told he would spend nearly 20 years in prison. Read more...
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