footage of the raids to Mir-Hossein Mousavi campaign headquarters in Gheytarieh online. 2010 28 September: Hossein Derakhshan received a 19½ year jail sentence. 8 October: Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki, often described as 'genius' blogger, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. According to Reporters Without Borders, he was alleged to have written and used software to combat filtering and to host and support websites and blogs that defend human rights. 2011 January: the Cyber Police unit, known by the acronym FATA, is created. The unit was created to "control which sites Iranians are able to visit, to prevent spying and protect the public from 'immoral' material. The United States, they charge, is waging a 'soft war' against Iran by reaching out to Iranians online and inciting them to overthrow their leaders" The unit has focused both on bloggers critical of Iran's leaders, and non-political activities such as a group of youths who had created a "hot or not" contest on Facebook rating profile pictures of boys and girls 2012 January: Judicial authorities arrest "at least half a dozen journalists and bloggers" as part of is thought to be "a pre-emptive campaign ... to thwart protests" connected to the campaigns for the early March parliamentary election. This despite the fact that none of the bloggers "seem to have been politically active or to have published anything that might be considered seditious". The arrests were not made public in the government media and specific charges against the bloggers were "unclear". 30 October: Sattar Beheshti, a relatively minor figure" among Iran's bloggers, is arrested by the Cyberpolice (FATA) for "actions against national security on social networks and Facebook", after posting a criticism of the Islamic Republic addressed to the Supreme Leader and allegedly receiving threatening messages. 31 October: Beheshti issues "an official letter to the head of the prison" stating: "I, Sattar Beheshti, was arrested by FATA and beaten and tortured with multiple blows to my head and body, ... I want to write that if anything happens to me, the police are responsible". 6 November: authorities tell Beheshti's family "to collect his body". He reportedly died two days earlier. circa 10 November: 41 prisoners from Ward 350 of Tehran's Evin prison, where Beheshti was reportedly held for one night, issued a letter "claiming that signs of torture were visible on the blogger's body". 1 December: Iranian's national police chief, Ismael Ahmadi-Moqaddam dismisses General Saeed