Birth Name:

Hossein Derakhshan

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Jan 07, 1975

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Age:

49

Zodiac Sign:

Capricorn

Astrology Data:

Sun

16°

Cap

25'

About Hossein Derakhshan

Hossein Derakhshan (Persian: حسين درخشان‎; born January 7, 1975), also known as Hoder, is an Iranian-Canadian blogger, journalist, and researcher who was imprisoned in Tehran from November 2008 to November 2014. He is credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran and is called the father of Persian blogging by many journalists. He also helped to promote podcasting in Iran. Derakhshan was arrested on November 1, 2008 and sentenced to 19½ years in prison on September 28, 2010. His sentence was reduced to 17 years in October 2013. He was pardoned by Iran's supreme leader and on November 19, 2014 was released from Evin prison.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Hossein Derakhshan's official homepage

• Hossein Derakhshan's blog on The Washington Post, PostGlobal[permanent dead link]

• Hossein Derakhshan's column on The Guardian

• Hossein Derakhshan, Video stream; 'Reform, Youth and Technology in Iran at HUMlab

• [2] - support site during Derakhshan's detention in Iran

• Derakhshan's childhood in Iran TV

• PRESS TV interview

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100926094233/http://www.freetheblogfather.org/ Free the blogfather Hossein Derakhshan, September 2010.

• [3] Blogfather: Times are hard for Iran's online free-speech pioneer][permanent dead link] (November 2007). Ottawa Citizen

• Iranian Blogger Hossein Derakhshan Sued for Defamation in Canada. (November 2007). Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School

• Mehdi Khalaji sues Hossein Derakhshan (November 2007). Critical Montage

• People Change, Principles don't. (November 2007). My Heart Is In Accra

• Reform, Youth, and Technology in Iran, Lecture by Hossein Derakhshan (February 2006), HUMlab Sweden (video stream).

• Tough Times for Iranian Blogger (November 2007). Lenin's Tomb

• A neo-con censorship: A Threat to All of Us (August 2007). Monthly Review

• Hoder's recent problems. (August 2007). Iranian

• Shutting Down Hoder (August 2007). Iranian

• Wan-Ifra Hossein Derakhshan Jailed since November 2008 (April 2014)

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Hossein Derakhshan: Sun 16 Capricorn, Moon 18 Scorpio, Mercury 27 Capricorn, Venus 1 Aquarius, Mars 19 Sagittarius, Jupiter 14 Pisces, Saturn 15 Cancer, Uranus 2 Scorpio, Neptune 10 Sagittarius, Pluto 9 Libra, Sun Opposition Saturn, Mercury Square Uranus, Sun Sextile Jupiter, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Mercury Semi Square Jupiter, Mercury Semi Square Neptune, Venus Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Square Uranus, Mars Semi Square Uranus, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Hossein Derakhshan: Living people, January 7 births, Iranian democracy activists, Free speech activists, 1975 births, Iranian bloggers, Iranian prisoners and detainees, People convicted of spreading propaganda against the system by the Islamic Republic of Iran, Inmates of Evin Prison, Canadian people imprisoned abroad, Iranian dissidents, Recipients of Iranian pardons

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