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January 19, 2018

Man’s Hand Amputated as Punishment for Theft Conviction in Mashhad

A man’s hand was amputated with a guillotine on January 17, 2018, in Central Prison in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, according ...

January 19, 2018

Female Musician Prohibited From Performing on Stage in Isfahan

Iranian singer Salar Aghili performed in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on January 12 and ...

January 18, 2018

Majority of Iranian MPs Call For Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

A majority of Iranian lawmakers have signed a letter calling for a ban on foreign social media apps to support state-led ...

January 18, 2018

Police Arrest Three Gonabadi Dervishes and Injure 10 at Peaceful Rally For Detained Devotees

Ten members of a persecuted Sufi order in Iran were injured and three others arrested in the city of Kowar, Fars Province after police attacked their rally in ...

January 18, 2018

Detained Iranian Protesters Told to Admit Being Drug Addicts to Speed Up Release

Vahid Heydari (right) and Sina Ghanbari were killed in ...

January 16, 2018

Intelligence Ministry Forces Father of Slain Protester to Repeat Authorities’ Version of Events on State TV

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry coerced the father of a dead protester into claiming in front of a camera that his son ...

January 12, 2018

Iran Unblocks Widely Used Messaging App Telegram After Two Weeks

 It took Iranian President Hassan Rouhani nearly two weeks to lift the ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app, after it was blocked amid state-imposed internet disruption during ...

January 12, 2018

Intelligence Ministry Agents Intimidate Family of Slain Farmer Killed at Protest

Nematollah Shafiei was a bystander who was shot and killed during protests in Qahderijan, Isfahan Province, on ...

January 12, 2018

President Rouhani Changes Course and Acknowledges Protesters’ Varied Reasons For Discontent

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani struck a more conciliatory tone in reacting for the second time to a wave of protests that ...

January 12, 2018

Iran’s Supreme Leader Condemns Protests as “Devilish Fireworks”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned the country’s recent nationwide protests as “devilish fireworks” organized by the United States, Israel, regional Arab states and Iranian counter-revolutionaries.  “Their intention was to stir things up ...

January 11, 2018

Local Officials in Iranian City Dezful Attempt to Deflect Responsibility for Protesters’ Death

A protester died from a bullet wound during a protest in the city of Dezful despite a local official’s claim that “this man’s ...

January 10, 2018

Internet Cut-Off During Recent Unrest in Iran Reveals Tehran’s New Cyber Capabilities

Guards at the Gate: The Expanding State Control Over the Internet in Iran provides an in-depth review of Iran’s internet policies and initiatives, in particular, the development of its state-controlled National Internet Network (NIN), which gives the government newly expanded abilities to control Iranians’ access ...

January 9, 2018

Conclusion

Iranians’ most basic rights are being violated. Internet access and privacy have become integral to the fundamental human rights of freedom of speech, expression and association, the right to access information, and the right to privacy. Yet with the development of the NIN, which has ...

January 9, 2018

Implications

Under Rouhani, internet filtering has not only continued, it has been strengthened. National search engines now allow systematized filtering and re-direction to state-approved (and often falsified) content. The blocking of major social media platforms, especially during sensitive times such as elections or during unrest, has ...

January 9, 2018

Executive Summary

Guards at the Gate: The Expanding State Control Over the Internet in Iran by the Center for Human Rights ...

January 9, 2018

Rouhani’s influence

Despite the more marginalized role of the president and his ministries, the implementation of internet policies, if not the policy making itself, remains in the hands of the Ministry of Communications, which is under the authority of Rouhani. Hence on several occasions, he has been ...

January 9, 2018

Blocking under Rouhani

The Rouhani administration’s record on blocking sites has also not supported his stated support for internet freedom. To be sure, his administration has on several occasions resisted the blocking of social networks. For example, as previously mentioned, in 2014 Rouhani issued an order to ban ...

January 9, 2018

Filtering

For as long as the internet has had a presence in Iran, the state has filtered websites and the content on it. However, internet filtering has undergone a transformation during Rouhani’s first term (2003-2017). With the launch of the NIN’s National Search Engine, the Iranian government’s ...

January 9, 2018

Implications

Cyberattacks take place routinely in Iran and are on the rise. Most of the state-sponsored hacking reports CHRI has been receiving have increasingly involved the interception of text messages. Critically, the hackers are using governmental technology infrastructure, namely, the IRGC-owned and controlled Telecommunications Company. As such, ...

January 9, 2018

Fake Applications

Another method used to intercept the communications of Iranian users is through the distribution of pirated versions or localized versions of popular applications that are widely used in Iran. For example, the messaging application Telegram, which remains unblocked in Iran and has 40 million registered users ...

January 9, 2018

Message Tapping

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January 9, 2018

Malware

Malware is a computer program that runs spyware with the aim of collecting information or eavesdropping on the victim after the spyware is installed on a computer or mobile phone. Malware usually allows the attacker to commandeer the victim’s computer without his or her knowledge. ...

January 9, 2018

Phishing

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January 9, 2018

DDoS Attacks

Distributed denial of service attacks (or DDoS) aim to make a website unavailable, and are typically used when the attacker is trying to prevent dissemination ...

January 9, 2018

Cyber Attacks

CHRI’s research indicates that during Rouhani’s first term (2013-2017), cyberattacks on the social networks accounts of civil and political activists, journalists, academics and influential cultural figures have dramatically increased. CHRI works directly with individuals under cyberattack to protect their accounts, and as a result, has perspective ...

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