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Iran's telecommunications minister and the youngest member of the cabinet of President Hassan Rouhani, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, was summoned on Wednesday by the country's attorney general and released on bail.
Iran's telecommunications minister and the youngest member of the cabinet of President Hassan Rouhani, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, was summoned on Wednesday by the country's attorney general and released on bail.
In a statement, Jamal Hadian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, said the minister appeared before a prosecutor at the Culture and Media Court in Tehran and was released after being questioned.
Jahromi faces an indictment, according to sources, over the failure of the ministry to comply with an order issued by the Supreme Council of Cyberspace of Iran to filter Instagram, block virtual private networks (VPNs) and facilitate locally established messengers.
If the minister is called to appear before the court again, that remains unclear, but the prosecutor's office in Tehran said that the investigation into allegations against him continues.
This is not the first time Iran’s telecom and information minister has been put in the dock by the country’s powerful judiciary to filter or block social media platforms deemed “inappropriate.”
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