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Name: Hossein Derakhshan
Joined: August 22, 2002
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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Hoder is a shortened form of my name: HOssein DERakhshan. I spent six years in Evin prison in Tehran, after I returned to the country in November 2008. I was sentenced to 19.5 years of prison and was pardoned by the Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and released in October 2014. (More on Wikipedia)

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