Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (called Sepah or Sipah)definition in Wikipedia is the pro-islamic militia of Iran and is separate from, and parallel to, the Iranian army. This military group announced that they are holding a seminar called "Women and Internet in the Third Millennium" !
This is last part of its Directors' message:

Women on one hand are responsible for treating their children and on the other hand as a spouse have moral responsibilities .
So paying attention to the condition of women's society is very effective in the whole society.
We really appreciate those researchers , scientists and attached people who help us with achieving this goal

Many cyberactivists and journalists are angry about this. We say in a country in which many many feminist and womens organizations are filtered (you can not access to those site in Internet) and you can not even google the word "women" because "It contains pornographic results", how you can conduct an conference by the censorship forces called "women and internet in the third millennium" ? and look at the fun part: if you search for the name of conference in any search engine you'll blocked by the "Access to this site is Denied" message because the name of the conference contains the rude word "women" !

We can not do anything about this because Sepah is very dangerous, nobody is brave/silly enough to demonstrate there and we do not even have the permission to enter the salon! We only can send emails to the head of the conference and ask "how you can call a conference women and the internet in the third millennium while the word women and many many womens sites are censored on the Internet ?" and for sure, he will not answer. But we are doing so because we believe that it is good for him TO KNOW THAT SOMEBODY DOES NOT BELIEVES IN HIS LIES.

Kaveh Golestan was an Iranian famous photojournalist who murdered three years ago in Iraq. Nowadays his family and friends gives an annual "kaveh golestan" award to photographers in the memory of the man who said

" I want to show you images that will be like a slap in your face to shatter your security. You can look away,turn off,hide your identity like murderers,but you can not stop the truth. No one can."

Kaveh Golestan

This year, the "one photo" sections winner is Mansour Nasiri for his photo from Police attack to women's demonstration in HafteTir sq.. This is the photo:



I am glad that a photo from this event is the winner. This will lead to more media (Internet) coverage, although this year "ministry of Islamic guidance" did not let "kaveh golestan" organization to exhibit the photos in a public place or even publish the photos in a collection as a book.

If you want to see the other photos from this competition, visit golestanaward.com photo gallery but keep in mind "بعدی" is "next" so you have to push the red Persian word below the photos (just before the >> sign) to go to the next page. good luck !

Cool ! Although I'm not into religion leaders but I always interested in Dalai Lama because of his active role in human rights.

As you may know Iranian women's rights activists have initiated a landmark campaign to collect one million signatures to demand an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law (It is obvious that this meaningful and gramartically correct sentence is not written by me ! I've copied it from Nobel Women's Initiative News site).

After police crushed down our legal demonstration, this is our new way to have contact with people and the world and let them know about our brutal laws. This is a GREAT project and I think this mission is very difficult to accomplish, but we have to work, we have to try and we have to build the future ;)