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Iran: Police controls a Facebook group, arrests its administrators

Written byHadi Nili
Posted 30 January 2012 19:24 GMT

A Facebook group called “Daaf and Paaf” (means hot persons) fell under control of Iran's cyber police. Iran's cyber police announced [fa] on the group's Facebook's wall that “the administrators of this group have confessed to promoting banality”. This group had an online competition for choosing hot Iranian men and women.

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