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Reporters without Borders - Reporters Without Borders condemns the reinforcement of Iran’s system of Internet filtering and blocking. Use of the leading VPN censorship circumvention tools such as Kerio and OpenVPN has been blocked since 4 May, making it very difficult for Iranians to access an unfiltered Internet.

Radio Zamaneh - Reports from Iran indicate that proxies are no longer effective for Iranian internet users to circumvent web censorship.

Persian2English - Mohammad Reza Pourshajari’s daughter, Mira Pourshajari tells Rooz that her father’s life is in danger. 

HRANA News Agency – Pourya Farazmand, the blogger and cyber activist was arrested on 7^th of March in Kermanshah.

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Reza Akvanian, blogger, poet, writer and human rights activist was detained by security agents on Sunday March 24, 2013 at approximately 3am.

Radio Zamaneh - Iran’s cyber police have imposed further restrictions on internet cafes, issuing a list of 20 new requirements that must be complied with within 15 days by all such businesses or else they will face prosecution.

Persian2English - (Persian report originally published by Kaleme on March 27, 2013) – Mitra Pourshajari, the daughter of Siamak Mehr, a blogger in Ghezel Hesar prison has told Kaleme that she had asked the Supervising Assistant Prosecutor of the prison to explain the reason that they won’t sign off on her ailing father’s furlough request. According to her, he answered, “I’m not willing to endanger my life for your [father]. I won’t even allow him one hour of furlough…Your father has been charged for crimes that put the country in danger. If they intended to grant [him] furlough the Prosecutor would have [personally] signed off on it instead of sending the case file [to us].”

Reuters - Iranian authorities have blocked the use of most "virtual private networks", a tool that many Iranians use to get around an extensive government Internet filter, Iranian media quoted an official as saying on Sunday.