AN IRANIAN activist has gone missing after criticising a proposed Bill to implement highly restrictive internet policies, his family said on Saturday.

Hossein Ronaghi, a blogger and free-speech campaigner, disappeared on Wednesday after he criticised a parliamentary Bill to limit internet access known as the users’ protection Bill. The proposal has been criticised by many Iranians on social media.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, compained in March last year that social media in Iran is “unbridled” and that it should not be “surrendered to the enemy.”