I'm Jadi. A 27 years old from Tehran / Iran. I blogged for years at my farsi weblog (www.jadi.net) but these days I'm FILTERED in my own country so I have to write here in english. It's shame but it is the situation !

I am keeping an eye on freedom of expression, censorship, internet filtering and ...

Email: jadijadi at gmail

Note: english IS NOT my native language. I'm not good at it. But I think writing in poor english is much more BETTER THAN not writing at all. But I'll be glad reciveing friendly editorial, spelling, grammer, ... comments and I'll fix and learn.

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View Article  Stupid censorship: Web Resources
Some countries filter sex. Some filter uncommon believes or disbelief. Some other, filter the sites of the opposition political parties. There are also some countries who block the individual blogs. A few also block satire. Iran blocks all of these :) and not only these but also some nonsense sites. Just like this one:



Here is a screenshot of a dangerous site: Web.Resource.org but luckily our wise government is here to defend us. If you try Web.Resource.org in Iran you will see nothing harmful:



:) Thank's to our rulers, know we are safe :)
View Article  Back from Kabul
I was in Afghanistan / Kabul for two weeks. I was training two NGOs to start their websites. Unfortunately both are in Persian.

This was my second time in Kabul. It is a nice city with friendly people. The main problems there are not being clean and not being safe. Everyday the are some killings in the news and you read about how "some people" killed "some other". While I was there, 3 newspaper reporters where murdered and more than 20 polices. One day one of trainees did not attended the class. When I asked him the day after he said: "One of my relatives were killed during a conflict with Taliban; he was a policeman".

One good point there is the freedom of expression :) Although it is dangerous but legally you have the right to speak out your idea. This might be only available during the "honeymoon" of the country and it seems the government is trying to decrease it because of national security.

I met many people there. I went to Afghan PEN sessions, met politicians and people from newspapers and media. This was good. Most of the people were not with the Karzai and told me that he is not doing well.

Oh and as soon as I have returned back to Iran, Police have arrested one another activist! Again an active woman from "1 million campaign". This time Ehteram Shadfar. A 62 years old woman is in the prison because of ... nobody knows.