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Joint Statement: U.S. Treasury’s New General License D2 Advances Internet Freedom in Iran

Joint Statement: U.S. Treasury’s New General License D2 Advances Internet Freedom in Iran

September 26, 2022

Now Companies Must Make Tech Products Available and U.S. Government Must Encourage Them September 26, 2022—Today, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) welcomed ...

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

September 21, 2022

World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, 2022 – On the sixth day of protests in Iran that have followed the ...

Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

June 9, 2022

June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) called on Meta to urgently revise ...

UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”

UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”

March 1, 2022

UN human rights experts have urged the Iranian government to abandon a proposed bill that would drastically increase the authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the internet. "This bill represents ...

Bill Increasing Surveillance and Censorship of Internet Moves Forward in Iran

Bill Increasing Surveillance and Censorship of Internet Moves Forward in Iran

February 24, 2022

Authorities’ Efforts to Crush Dissent Will Also Crush Livelihoods February 24, 2022 - A proposed bill that would drastically increase the Iranian authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the ...

Bipartisan Congressional Group Urges Biden to Support Internet Freedom in Iran

Bipartisan Congressional Group Urges Biden to Support Internet Freedom in Iran

October 11, 2021

Congressional letter was spearheaded by Center for Human Rights in Iran and Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans Oct. 11, 2021 – A bipartisan congressional group today urged U.S. President Joe Biden ...

Total Control Over Internet Use in Iran Sought by Security Agencies with New Legislation

Total Control Over Internet Use in Iran Sought by Security Agencies with New Legislation

July 30, 2021

Parliament Maneuvers to Pass Bill Without Full Vote to Avoid Public Scrutiny  Move Comes on Heels of State’s Internet Shutdowns During Crackdown on Protesters July 30, 2021 – In a bid to sidestep public ...

U.S., EU Must Speak Out Forcefully to Avoid Further Bloodshed in Iran

U.S., EU Must Speak Out Forcefully to Avoid Further Bloodshed in Iran

July 28, 2021

Security Forces Are Again Killing Peaceful Protesters; Repeat of 2019 Massacre Feared State-engineered Internet Shutdown Aimed at Hiding the Violence July 28, 2021—As state security forces in Iran continue to violently suppress peaceful protests ...

Outdated U.S. Policies Are Helping Iran Censor Its Citizens (Commentary Published in Foreign Policy)

Outdated U.S. Policies Are Helping Iran Censor Its Citizens (Commentary Published in Foreign Policy)

May 7, 2021

*This op-ed was published by Foreign Policy Unclear guidelines and fear of sanctions are stopping tech companies from selling products that would help Iranians access the internet freely and evade ...

New Report: Lack of Access to Tech Products Blocks Internet Freedom in Iran

New Report: Lack of Access to Tech Products Blocks Internet Freedom in Iran

April 26, 2021

Biden Administration, Companies Can Support Digital Rights without Lifting Any Sanctions April 26, 2021—A new policy briefing released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) details the difficulties Iranians ...

U.S. Government, Companies Can Do More to Promote Internet Freedom in Iran

U.S. Government, Companies Can Do More to Promote Internet Freedom in Iran

March 17, 2021

New OFAC License for GitHub Highlights Shortcomings of General License D1 An Interview with Internet Freedom and Security Expert Amir Rashidi Key Points: Iranians are largely unable to use international communications tools and services because companies ...

Students Assaulted, Arrested in State Crackdown on University Protests

Students Assaulted, Arrested in State Crackdown on University Protests

January 15, 2020

Eyewitnesses Report Heavy Paramilitary Presence, Internet and Phone Disruptions Protesters were physically attacked and arrested at universities in Tehran and other Iranian cities on January 14, 2019, the fourth consecutive day of ...

Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities”

Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities”

December 3, 2019

Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities” As reports of the unprecedented state violence against protestors in Iran begin to emerge now that ...

Iranian Government Dictated to Local Media How to Cover Protests, New Documents Reveal

Iranian Government Dictated to Local Media How to Cover Protests, New Documents Reveal

November 25, 2019

Journalists Will Be Charged with “Crimes” if Coverage Diverges from Official Line Officials Expected Protests, Dictated Instructions to Media Before Price Hike Was Announced November 25, 2019—While Iran is still reeling from the ...

UN Raises Alarm at Arrests and Reported Killings, Internet Shutdown

UN Raises Alarm at Arrests and Reported Killings, Internet Shutdown

November 22, 2019

Javaid Rehman, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, joined his colleagues in expressing serious concerns about the Iranian authorities' use of ...

State-Developed VPN Would Determine Iranians’ Internet Access Based on Their Job

State-Developed VPN Would Determine Iranians’ Internet Access Based on Their Job

November 21, 2019

Hamid Fattahi, the CEO of the state-owned Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC), the sole provider of telecommunication infrastructure to all private and public operators in the ...

Judicial Order Seeks to Block Iranians’ Access to Google Play App Store

Judicial Order Seeks to Block Iranians’ Access to Google Play App Store

October 16, 2019

Move Would Limit Iranians to State-Controlled App Store, Vulnerable to State Surveillance, Malware A judicial order to block Google Play in Iran, which would deny millions of Iranians access to the world’s largest app store for Android devices, has been issued but not ...

Iran Blocks Domestic Hosting Companies From Servicing Banned Websites

Iran Blocks Domestic Hosting Companies From Servicing Banned Websites

October 8, 2019

Iran’s deputy prosecutor general in ...

Iran Cracks Down on Instagram Celebrities as It Tightens Noose on Freedom of Speech and Expression

Iran Cracks Down on Instagram Celebrities as It Tightens Noose on Freedom of Speech and Expression

August 16, 2019

Investigations by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) indicate that dozens of Iranians with large followings on Instagram—including athletes, fashion models and actors—were summoned by security officials in 2019 and ...

Disability Rights Activists Urge Apple to Allow Persian Speakers to Access VoiceOver Screen Reader

Disability Rights Activists Urge Apple to Allow Persian Speakers to Access VoiceOver Screen Reader

August 9, 2019

Apple’s screen reader technology enables ...

More Iranians Forced to Rely on Unsafe Online Hosting After Amazon Ban

More Iranians Forced to Rely on Unsafe Online Hosting After Amazon Ban

August 7, 2019

Amazon has become the latest major American technology company to block Iranians from accessing its products and services due to U.S. government sanctions that prohibit companies from providing products or services to ...

Brushing Off Security Concerns, Telecoms Minister Touts Iranian-Made Mobile Phone Operating System 

Brushing Off Security Concerns, Telecoms Minister Touts Iranian-Made Mobile Phone Operating System 

July 16, 2019

Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced on July 7, 2019, the development of an Iranian-made version of the Android operating system (OS) by a team of students at the Sharif University ...

Why Did Internet Access Speeds Slow to a Crawl in Iran?

Why Did Internet Access Speeds Slow to a Crawl in Iran?

July 9, 2019

Telecommunications Minister Falsely States the Problem Originated Outside the Country Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi made a false statement when he said via Twitter that recent disruptions to internet access in Iran ...

Why is the Iranian Government Aiding the Development of a Censorship Circumvention Tool?

Why is the Iranian Government Aiding the Development of a Censorship Circumvention Tool?

May 30, 2019

Using Iranian government resources, a Tehran-based company has been developing an online censorship circumvention tool that specifically enables users in the country to access a widely used app that was blocked nationwide by ...

Iranian State Malware Continues to Hack Online Accounts of Religious Minority Groups

Iranian State Malware Continues to Hack Online Accounts of Religious Minority Groups

May 20, 2019

Malicious Spyware Has Attacked At Least 74 Victims Worldwide, Azeri and Gonabadi Dissidents Among Targets Iranian state agents continue to use malware to hack into the online accounts of religious minority groups inside ...

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