Iranian IM app director found dead
Reports indicate Majid Ebrahimi, director of a @Telegram Messenger channel in #Iran, has been found dead in a Shahreza road after disappearing for two days.
Sources say authorities demanded he close down his social media channel.
He refused and is now dead.
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"Iran temporarily banned Telegram and Instagram earlier this year during widespread anti-government protests. At the time, Iran state TV said authorities were temporarily blocking the services to “maintain peace,” while Iran’s ICT minister, Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, claimed Telegram was complicit by “encouraging hateful conduct, use of Molotov cocktails, armed uprisings, and social unrest.”
Russian citizens, meanwhile, are protesting the ban in Moscow by throwing paper planes, a symbol on Telegram’s logo, during a rally to urge authorities to unlock the app."
sauce:
https://
www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17306792/telegram-banned-iran-encrypted-messaging-app-russia