Editing Blogging in Iran (section)

===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>