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Iran arrests fashion models, blog manager in social media crackdown
Reuters ^
| May 16, 2016
| Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Posted on 05/16/2016 8:42:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Iran has launched a new crackdown on social media, arresting fashion models active on photo-sharing websites and a blog website manager after Tehran's top leader declared war on un-Islamic thoughts on the Internet.
Eight members of a modeling network were arrested and accused of publishing photos of women without the obligatory hijab headscarf on the picture-sharing application Instagram, Tasnim news agency said on Sunday.
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I blame Instagram here for not making the wearing of the hijab mandatory as part of their terms of service. Perhaps Instagram will correct that so as not to offend you-know-who.
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