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[ladyaeryn]

Iranian students beaten in their dorms

Some pictures here and video here. Needless to say, some of the images are brutal.

God, I can't believe hardly anyone is covering this. People are dying over there. Who'd have ever thought Twitter would be the journalistic forefront of a national revolution?

This page has links to much of the major

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[elseinane]

From what I've seen - Twitter is about the only thing that they can't shut down. The NBC office was raided and nearly all the equipment confiscated. I'm sure anyone else recognizable as Western press is hiding in a hole right about now.

Scary. *wibble*

[ladyaeryn]

I saw reports that most press who weren't kicked out of the country were being trapped in their hotel by police. I never thought I'd say it, but in this case: thank the maker for Twitter. And video-capable cell phones, since that seems to be the only recording device the police aren't seizing.

People over there are fighting and dying, and if it weren't for the internet, hardly anyone would know about it. And even then it's only certain areas of the internet.

[zhonnika]

o_O

Really, really scary.

[ladyaeryn]

American youth - yours truly included - could take a lesson from these students. THIS is what it means to fight for democracy.

Seeing this makes me wonder how our population would have responded if somehow McCain had won last year.

[ladyaeryn]

For the most part, you're right. But whenever Iran makes loud noises, like the garbage Ahmadinejad spouted about the Holocaust - then it seems like the media's all over it.

Now, however, the country's in flames and all you hear about is the "celebrations" of Ahmadinejad's victory, with the protests a vague footnote. I know part of it's the crackdown in Iran itself - aside from just making information release more difficult, I'm sure many agencies fear for their reporters' lives. There've been countless journalist beatings, and one member of a German news team has disappeared completely. :(

[frostbit_sky]

This is really really scary. I know a girl in a Iran who is a college student. I pray she is ok. Oh God....

[ladyaeryn]

Oh no, I hope she's okay. *hugs* Do you know which university she's at? Seems like the big Twitter action is coming out of the Tehran and Shiraz universities.

[frostbit_sky]

I don't know :( All I know is she is studying architecture.
We know each other from a message board. I am going to PM her.

[crystaltear]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/sets/72157619592664479/show/

pictures, if you havent' seen.