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RFL/RE – Iranian lawmaker Parvaneh Salahshouri says about 90 students have been arrested in the past few days.
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Meanwhile Britain’s media regulator says it is considering an official letter received from Iran’s embassy in London complaining about media coverage of the protests.
The regulator, known as Ofcom, said Friday the letter is being carefully evaluated.
Iranian state media say the government is complaining about what it calls a propaganda campaign orchestrated by U.K.-based Persian-language broadcasters.
The letter asserts that the media outlets violated U.K. and international media regulations and tried to incite protesters into using violent tactics.
Ofcom has a broad regulatory role in Britain, overseeing television, radio, high-speed internet and other sectors. One of its roles is to protect British consumers from harmful content.
Furthermore, according to AFP the head of the country’s cybercrime committee stated that Iranian ministers should be punished if they deliberately failed to censor online content by “trouble-makers and enemies”.
“The order to block all channels on encrypted messaging service Telegram, that in recent days incited the population to violence and trouble, was transmitted by judicial officials to the telecoms ministry a long time ago, but unfortunately nothing was done,” said Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, according to local media.
“If it is proven that officials voluntarily refused to take the necessary measures to prevent the activities of trouble-makers and enemies, they must be punished,” added Khoramabadi, who is also deputy to Iran’s chief prosecutor.
Telegram and Instagram were blocked shortly after protests began on December 28, and officials also moved to shut down privacy software widely used to get round online restrictions.
Khoramabadi claimed there were 8,500 channels on Telegram with content that was against “national security, the values of Islam and public morale”.
“The former minister and the current minister have resisted in the face of orders” to block these channels, he said.
