Editing Blogging in Iran (section)

===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>