Iranian police arrests two for insults on Internet
Two individuals were arrested in the Semnan province on charge of offending Iran's officials on their Facebook page, Head of the Cyber Police (FATA) of Semnan province Ali Mirahmadi said, Mehr news agency reported.
He said that improving the security of the cyber space via continuous monitoring is the main purpose of the FATA.
Nearly two million of 75-million population of Iran have Facebook accounts, Deputy Speaker Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard at Iran's Majlis (parliament) said earlier.
Iran has blocked and demonized the social network as a "Zionist" instrument and a tool of "soft war" against the Islamic republic for this reason.
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