A Safe Refuge? Minorities and the State in Iranian Cyberspace
A Safe Refuge? Minorities and the State in Iranian Cyberspace
Bronwen Robertson, James Marchant
Editorial
The Iranian state has consistently restricted spaces in open society for minorities to express their identities, especially where such identities are construed as representing a threat to the religious, political and sexual orthodoxies promulgated by the clerical establishment. As a result, many members of assorted Iranian minority groups have taken to cyberspace to build communities, articulate self- and group-identities, organise to overcome discriminatory practices, and…
