Iranian Crackdown Goes Global – WSJ.com. people with family still in iran were getting threats for posting stuff on facebook. honestly, what thugs.
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They actually used to kill dissidents (and members of the previous government) who were living abroad.
Also, this was one of the the things the LTTE was accused of doing: extorting money from people in London and Toronto by threatening family they might still have in Sri Lanka, or telling people they could never go back.