Editing Blogging in Iran (section)

==Timeline==

===2001===
* 7 September - The first Persian blog is published by [[Hossein Derakhshan]], using manual coding.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4973862,00.html | title = The land of Goder and Ferfer, blogging with a Persian accent  | work = DW-World | date = 2009-12-07 | access-date = 2010-01-11 }}</ref>
* 25 September - The blog using manual coding is published.
* 5 November - Instructions on "How to make a blog in Persian" using [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]]'s free service is published, in response to readers' requests.

===2002===
* 2 June - Cappuccino magazine is launched.<!-- notable? -->
* 13 June - PersianBlog.com, the first free blog service in Persian, is launched. Persianblog.com co-founded by Sahand Ghanoun,<ref name=hamshahri>{{cite web|title=Hamshahri (Internet Version of Tehran's Persian Daily) Nov. 5 2002|url=http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/hamnews/1381/810814/IGOZAR.HTM}}</ref> Behrang Fouladi,<ref name=hamshahri /> Ata Khalighi Sigaroudi,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ata-khalighi.com |title=Please visit the HTTP |access-date=2008-08-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205172210/http://ata-khalighi.com/ |archive-date=2005-02-05 }}</ref> and Reza Hashemi.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://itiran.com/d/50638 | title=Itiran (Iran's first online IT News service)}}</ref>
* 10 November - BlogSky.com, the second free blog service in Persian, is launched.

===2003===
* 31 March - Persianblog service lists its weblog updates in the global weblogs.com directory. [[Dave Winer]], names Iran a hot place for weblogs.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://scripting.com/2003/04/02.html |title= Dave Winer announces addition of persian weblogs to weblogs.com}}</ref>
* 20 April - [[Sina Motallebi]], journalist and blogger is arrested.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/61261 | title = Three journalists transferred to notorious "special wing" of Evin prison; exiled journalist's father arrested | work = [[International Freedom of Expression Exchange]] | date = 2004-09-14 | access-date = 2009-03-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310212004/http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/61261 | archive-date = 2007-03-10 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
* 26 September - Cafe Blog opens in northern [[Tehran]].
* 24 November - [[Mohammad-Ali Abtahi]], then Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, starts Webnevesht, the first blog by a member of the Iranian cabinet.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/world/asia/11blog.html?em&ex=1197522000&en=304e78e9e511aa10&ei=5087%0A | title = From Iran's Fiery Leader, a Slightly Tamer Blog  | first = Nazila | last = Fathi | date = 2007-12-11 | work=The New York Times | access-date = 2009-03-18 }}</ref>

===2004===
* 16 January - Protesting MPs on sit-in start a weblog.
* 6 June - Persian Blogging festival starts.
* November - Iranian blogger [[Mojtaba Saminejad]] arrested for writing about the arrests of three other bloggers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11978 |title=Blogger Mojtaba Saminejad freed |work=[[International Freedom of Expression Exchange]] |date=2005-01-31 |access-date=2009-03-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528003100/http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11978 |archive-date=2008-05-28 }}</ref>

===2005===
* 5 January - Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran's Chief prosecutor, ordered major ISPs to filter PersianBlog and other blogging service websites.
* 27 January/12 February - Iranian blogger [[Mojtaba Saminejad]] briefly released, then rearrested
* October Blog Herald estimate: 700,000 Iranian blogs, of which about 10% are active
* 11 October - Blogging courses starts in the holy city of Qom, the traditional home of Iran's religious establishment. They are run by the newly established office of religious weblog expansion.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/iran/story/0,,1892562,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Iran's clerics caught up in blogging craze | first=Robert | last=Tait | date=2006-10-11 | access-date=2010-04-26}}</ref>

===2006===
* Persian language was listed by [[Technorati]] among 10 most common languages among bloggers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=فراستی|first1=ميد|script-title=fa:رشد وبلاگ نويسی در دنيا|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/persian/2006/11/post_132.html|website=BBC Persian|language=fa}}</ref>
* 14 August - President Ahmadinejad starts his multilingual blog with one long entry.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4790005.stm | work=BBC News | title=Iran's president launches weblog | date=2006-08-14 | access-date=2010-04-26}}</ref>
* 13 September - [[Mojtaba Saminejad]] is released from prison, after serving term.
* December: [[Mehrnoush Najafi Ragheb]] won city council election in [[Hamedan]].
* 4 December: [[Masoumeh Ebtekar]], the first female vice president of Iran starts her blog in Persian.

===2007===
* 24 December: Almost a year after starting her blog in Persian, [[Massoumeh Ebtekar]] starts her blog in English, under the title "Persian Paradox".

===2008===
* 28 January - Parsweblog.com, the first free blog service based on wordpress in Persian, is launched by Mohammad hasan abbasi
* 1 November: [[Hossein Derakhshan]], credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran<ref name="Guardian_hoder_weblogrevol">{{cite news | first=Jane | last=Perrone | title=Weblog heaven | date=2003-12-18 | work=[[The Guardian]] | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/dec/18/weblogs |access-date=2009-03-19 | location=London}}</ref> and frequently called "the father of Persian blogs"<ref name="alernet_fatherpersblogs">{{cite news | first=Z.P. | last=Heller | title=Online journals are under fire in Iran, but bloggers there and around the world refuse to let their voices be silenced. | date=2005-02-22 | url=http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21316/ | access-date=2009-04-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705231521/http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21316/ | archive-date=2008-07-05 | url-status=dead }}</ref> was arrested at his family home in [[Tehran]], not long after arriving there.<ref name="amnesty_hoder_arrest">{{cite web |title=Document - Iran: Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture or other ill-treatment/ possible prisoner of conscience: Hossein Derakhshan (m) |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |date=2009-12-15 |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/178/2008/en/ |access-date=2009-04-20 }}</ref><ref name="globalvoices_hoder_arrest">{{cite web| last = Gharbia| first =Sami Ben | title =Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan "arrested" In Tehran| date =18 November 2008 | publisher =[[Global Voices Online]]| url =http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/18/iranian-blogger-hossein-derakhshan-arrested-in-tehran/ | access-date =2009-04-20 }}</ref><ref name="hoder_arrested_Times">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Theodoulou |title=Iranian 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan is arrested on charge of spying for Israel |date=2008-11-20 |work=[[The Times]] |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5190462.ece |access-date=2009-04-19 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524090107/https://www.webcitation.org/5g9ySxomE?url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5190462.ece |archive-date=2024-05-24 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was allowed four calls to his family, each lasting about one minute, during November.<ref name="amnesty_hoder_arrest" /> [[Amnesty International]] suggested that he was likely to face charges of "insulting religion", but he had not yet been charged as of mid-December.<ref name="amnesty_hoder_arrest" />
* November: Revolutionary Guards announced their plan to launch 10000 blogs.
* 30 December: [[Alireza Jamshidi]], the speaker of the [[Judicial system of Iran]] confirmed Derakhshan's arrest, said that Derakhshan was in the custody of the [[Islamic Revolutionary Court]], that his case was in early [[discovery (law)|discovery]] phase, and that among the accusations were that Derakhshan had allegedly written about the "[[The Twelve Imams|Pure Imams]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=The judiciary system confirmed the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan|date=30 December 2008|access-date=2008-12-31|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2008/12/081230_ag_jb_derakhshan.shtml|agency=BBC Persian|language=fa}}</ref>

=== 2009 ===

* 1 January: Iranian's own video sharing site "IranianYouTube.com" was created
* late April: [[Hossein Derakhshan]] remained under detention and had not been charged.<ref name="NYT_hoder_arrest">{{cite news | first=Nazila | last=Fathi | title=Iranian President Asks Court to Reconsider Spy Case | date=2009-04-19 | work=[[The New York Times]] | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html |access-date=2009-04-20 }}</ref>
* June: [[Vahid Online]] broadcast live footage of the raids to [[Mir-Hossein Mousavi 2009 presidential campaign|Mir-Hossein Mousavi campaign headquarters]] in [[Gheytarieh]] online.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Diamond|first1=Larry |last2=Plattner|first2=Marc F.|title= Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | place= Baltimore|year=2012|isbn=978-1421406985|pages=145–146}}</ref>

=== 2010 ===
* 28 September: [[Hossein Derakhshan]] received a 19½ year jail sentence.<ref>{{cite news|title=Canadian-Iranian blogger sentenced to 19 years in prison |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/canadian-iranian-blogger-sentenced-to-19-years-in-prison/article1729730/ |access-date=28 September 2010 |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=28 September 2010 |location=Toronto |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001073516/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/canadian-iranian-blogger-sentenced-to-19-years-in-prison/article1729730/ |archive-date=October 1, 2010 }}</ref>
* 8 October: [[Hossein Ronaghi]]-Maleki, often described as 'genius' blogger, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.<ref>{{cite web | title='Genius' Blogger Sentenced To 15 Years  | url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Genius_Blogger_Sentenced_To_15_Years/2184616.html | publisher=Radio Free Europe | date=October 8, 2010 }}</ref> According to [[Reporters Without Borders]], he was alleged to have written and used software to combat filtering and to host and support websites and blogs that defend human rights.<ref>{{cite web | title=One blogger freed on bail, another blogger denied parole  | url=http://en.rsf.org/iran-persecution-of-bloggers-continues-15-10-2010,38549.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019043830/http://en.rsf.org/iran-persecution-of-bloggers-continues-15-10-2010,38549.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 19, 2010 | publisher=Reporters Without Borders | date=November 15, 2010 }}</ref>

===2011===
*January: the Cyber Police unit, known by the acronym FATA, is created. The unit was created to "control which sites Iranians are able to visit, to prevent spying and protect the public from 'immoral' material. The United States, they charge, is waging a 'soft war' against Iran by reaching out to Iranians online and inciting them to overthrow their leaders<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-cyber-police-cite-us-threat/2011/10/27/gIQA1yruSM_story.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Iran cyber police cite U.S. threat | date=29 October 2011 | first=William | last=Wan}}</ref>"  The unit has focused both on bloggers critical of Iran's leaders, and non-political activities such as a group of youths who had created a "hot or not" contest on Facebook rating profile pictures of boys and girls<ref name=not>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/world/middleeast/iran-says-sattar-beheshti-was-not-tortured-before-death.html?_r=0 Jailed Blogger Not Tortured Before Death, Iran Says]| By THOMAS ERDBRINK
|November 12, 2012</ref>

===2012===
*January: Judicial authorities arrest "at least half a dozen journalists and bloggers"  as part of is thought to be "a pre-emptive campaign ... to thwart protests" connected to the campaigns for the early March parliamentary election.  This despite the fact that none of the bloggers "seem to have been politically active or to have published anything that might be considered seditious". The arrests were not made public in the government media and specific charges against the bloggers were "unclear".<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/world/middleeast/iran-steps-up-arrests-of-journalists-and-bloggers.html?pagewanted=all Pattern of Intimidation Is Seen in Arrests of Iranian Journalists and Bloggers]| By RICK GLADSTONE and ARTIN AFKHAMI | nytimes.com| January 25, 2012</ref>
*30 October: [[Sattar Beheshti]], a relatively minor figure" among Iran's bloggers, is arrested by the [[Propaganda in Iran#Cyber Police|Cyberpolice]] (FATA) for "actions against national security on social networks and Facebook", after posting a criticism of the Islamic Republic addressed to the [[Supreme Leader of Iran|Supreme Leader]] and allegedly receiving threatening messages.
*31 October: Beheshti issues "an official letter to the head of the prison"<ref name=account>[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/murder-some-accountability-in-iranian-blogger-sattar-beheshtis-death/265203/ 'Murder': Some Accountability in Iranian Blogger Sattar Beheshti's Death]| Golnaz Esfandiari| 14 November 2012</ref> stating: "I, Sattar Beheshti, was arrested by FATA and beaten and tortured with multiple blows to my head and body, ... I want to write that if anything happens to me, the police are responsible".<ref name=not/>
*6 November: authorities tell Beheshti's family "to collect his body". He reportedly died two days earlier.<ref name=account/>
*circa 10 November: 41 prisoners from Ward 350 of Tehran's [[Evin prison]], where Beheshti was reportedly held for one night, issued a letter "claiming that signs of torture were visible on the blogger's body".<ref name=account/>
*1 December: Iranian's national police chief, Ismael Ahmadi-Moqaddam dismisses General Saeed Shokrian, commander of FATA (the cybercrimes police unit), for negligence in Beheshti's death, stating "Tehran's FATA should be held responsible for the death of Sattar Beheshti".<ref name=fired>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/world/middleeast/after-death-of-sattar-beheshti-iranian-blogger-head-of-tehrans-cybercrimes-unit-is-fired.html?_r=0 Head of Tehran’s Cybercrimes Unit Is Fired Over Death of Blogger]| By THOMAS ERDBRINK| nytimes.com| 1 December 2012</ref>

===2016===
*May: the Iranian government announced the arrest of eight women involved in online modeling without a [[Human rights in Iran#Compulsory hijab|mandatory head scarf]]. Mehdi Abutorabi, a blogger who managed a publishing tool called Persian Blog, was also detained.<ref>{{cite news|title=Iran's Hard-Liners Crack Down on Models Not Wearing Head Scarves|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/world/middleeast/irans-hard-liners-crack-down-on-models-not-wearing-head-scarves.html|access-date=17 May 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 May 2016|location=[[Tehran]]}}</ref>

===2018===
* 11 September - Dorsablog.com, the free blog service in Persian, is launched. Dorsablog.com co-founded by Hossein Hezami.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dorsablog news official blog|url=https://news.dorsablog.com}}</ref>