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Friday, July 03, 2009
Iranians take risks to upload their dissent online - Associated Press
The Iranian protesters sneak their cell phones onto the streets and hit record, frantically trying to evade being caught or beaten. The shaky, grainy images are e-mailed to friends. Then they are uploaded to blogs, YouTube or social networking sites -- offering the world some of the only firsthand glimpses of tensions following disputed presidential elections on June 12. But the Internet window on Iran's upheaval is being increasingly blacked out by the information crackdown by authorities, who have restricted foreign media from the streets and blacked out many Web sites considered sympathetic to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and his claim that the election was stolen by fraud vote rigging.
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