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Iran: “City Councillor Lost Post Over Facebook Account”

Written byFarid
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Posted 12 January 2014 12 years ago

Azamolsadat Hosseini says she lost her post in Behshahr‘s City Council over her Facebook account. Several Iranian officials use Facebook and Twitter to communicate their message but these sites and many other ones are filtered in country.

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