Fatwa articles

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  Iranian ayatollahs issue fatwa against 3G internet provider

  By Adi Robertson on February 20, 2013 12:46 pm + 81 comments

  Four Iranian ayatollahs have condemned mobile internet provider RightTel for undermining the Continue reading…

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  Author Salman Rushdie used video games as escapism while hiding from the Iranian government

  By Nathan Ingraham on October 10, 2012 09:16 am + 7 comments

  Noted author Salman Rushdie had to spend much of the 1990s in hiding after the spiritual leader of Continue reading…

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  Student's satirical Facebook posts land his Iranian father in jail

  By Louis Goddard on July 13, 2012 09:06 am + 55 comments

  An Iranian man is being detained by the country's security services after his son posted on a Continue reading…

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  Iranian leader's fatwa against anti-filtering tools censored by its internet filter

  By Jamie Keene on May 12, 2012 09:09 pm + 43 comments

  Iran's attempts at censoring digital communications have come under global scrutiny in recent Continue reading…