Bloggers
2.2.1
In 2013, t
he government prosecuted and punished several bloggers and webmasters for
the peace
ful expression of dissenting views.
On
9 April 2013
, blogger Mojtaba
Daneshtalab began serving a six
-
month prison sentence for “insulting the supreme
leader” in relation to a 2011 article in which Daneshtalab criticized Supreme Leader
Khamanei’s suggestio
n to institute a parliamentary system of government.
On
6 October
2013
, authorities released Daneshtalab after he completed his sentence