New Facebook Project Imitates Virtual Iranian Prison

On March 3, 2014 a multi-platform campaign called Unlock Iran will launch a website that will "guide users on a Facebook-oriented tour of what it's like to be imprisoned in Iran". The visitors will see their own timeline "altered to show what their life would be like if they were held in prison, and their friends will consist of the 10 photographed activists." This week representatives of Unlock Iran and the photographic Inside Out Project, with the help of renowned French street artist and social commentator JR, posted 11 portraits of imprisoned Iranian activists and two of recently executed activists, on a wall across the street from the UN Headquarters in New York City. According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center there were 624 executions in the country last year.