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Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram

Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram

May 11, 2018

The undersigned organisations call on the Rouhani administration to challenge the order and call on the Judiciary to revoke the order and end this egregious violation of freedom of expression rights ...

Six Lawyers in Iran File Petition Challenging Ban on Popular Telegram App

Six Lawyers in Iran File Petition Challenging Ban on Popular Telegram App

May 10, 2018

Six Iranian lawyers have presented a legal challenge to a recent judicial order blocking access in Iran to the widely used Telegram messaging and social media app, Telegram. On May 7, 2018, attorneys ...

State-Owned Telecommunications Company Has Yet to Comply With Judicial Order to Block Telegram

State-Owned Telecommunications Company Has Yet to Comply With Judicial Order to Block Telegram

May 7, 2018

President Rouhani Claims Supreme Leader Ordered Ban on Messaging App Used by 40 Million Investigations by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) show that Iran’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Company (TIC), ...

Iranian Lawyers: Rouhani Government Can Challenge Judiciary’s Ban on Telegram Messaging App

Iranian Lawyers: Rouhani Government Can Challenge Judiciary’s Ban on Telegram Messaging App

May 6, 2018

Iranian President Has Refused to Directly Counter Ban on Widely Used Social Network Two lawyers in Tehran told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that the Iranian president has the ...

Hackers With Ties to Security Agencies Launch Phishing Attacks on Well Known Iranians and Dual Nationals

Hackers With Ties to Security Agencies Launch Phishing Attacks on Well Known Iranians and Dual Nationals

May 4, 2018

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned that during the first two weeks of April 2018, hackers attempted to take over the email and social media ...

In a Desperate Move to Squash Internet Freedom, Iran Blocks Telegram

In a Desperate Move to Squash Internet Freedom, Iran Blocks Telegram

April 30, 2018

Ban Unlikely to Stop Most of Telegram’s 40 Million Users in Iran April 30, 2018--The Iranian Judiciary has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to the country’s most used messaging ...

Latest State Action Against Telegram in Iran Slows Access, Doubles Cost for Iranians

Latest State Action Against Telegram in Iran Slows Access, Doubles Cost for Iranians

April 27, 2018

The latest move by the authorities in Iran against the messaging app Telegram, used by some 40 million Iranians, has resulted in disruptions in access, slower speeds and higher costs for ...

Khamenei’s Dropping of Telegram Channel Lays Groundwork for Banning Messaging App

Khamenei’s Dropping of Telegram Channel Lays Groundwork for Banning Messaging App

April 18, 2018

Most Iranians Distrust Domestic Messaging Apps, Will Use VPNs to Stay on Telegram Two days after the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council (SCC) announced...

Senior Official: Telegram App Could Be Blocked “At Any Moment”

Senior Official: Telegram App Could Be Blocked “At Any Moment”

April 17, 2018

Education Ministry Bans Telegram on Campuses On the same day the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council told a radio program that the widely used Telegram app could be ...

Iranian State Hackers Launched Attacks on Same Day Supreme Leader Issued Fatwa Forbidding Privacy Violations

Iranian State Hackers Launched Attacks on Same Day Supreme Leader Issued Fatwa Forbidding Privacy Violations

April 11, 2018

On the same day that Iran’s supreme leader issued a religious ruling ordering the state to refrain from “violating the people’s security and domestic ...

Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps

Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps

April 10, 2018

Religious Ruling Follows News That Widely Used Telegram App Will Soon Be Blocked Following a recent flurry of public criticism of domestically made messaging apps, Iran’s supreme ...

Rouhani Admin Facing Backlash Over Plan to Give 100 Vetted Journalists Uncensored Internet Access

Rouhani Admin Facing Backlash Over Plan to Give 100 Vetted Journalists Uncensored Internet Access

April 9, 2018

Abbas Salehi, Iran's minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Journalists Tweet “I’m Not Interested” to Protest Discriminatory Internet Policy Iranian journalists and editors working for various news publications ...

Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative

Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative

April 5, 2018

Decision made at the “highest level” has set the stage for blocking social network used by 40 million. App can be blocked on supreme leader’s order but Iranians unlikely to flock ...

Iran Cracks Down on Kurdish Activists After Anti-State Protests

Iran Cracks Down on Kurdish Activists After Anti-State Protests

March 29, 2018

At Least Two Activists Facing “National Security” Charges Iran’s cyber police, known as FATA, and the Intelligence Ministry have summoned rights activists in mainly Kurdish-populated provinces of the country and accused them ...

Official Suggests Iran May Soon Block Access to Widely Used Telegram Messaging App

Official Suggests Iran May Soon Block Access to Widely Used Telegram Messaging App

March 26, 2018

Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, the secretary of Iran's Taskforce to Determine Instances of Criminal ...

Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter

Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter

March 12, 2018

A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media an “Effective Means of Public Diplomacy” The Iranian government’s top internet policy body is ...

Iranian Telecommunications Minister Blocks His Son’s Access to Google

Iranian Telecommunications Minister Blocks His Son’s Access to Google

February 26, 2018

Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi: “We banned Google in our home.” Domestic Search ...

Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

February 7, 2018

"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident Nizar Zakka is being denied medical attention in Evin Prison despite ...

170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

February 3, 2018

 A few weeks after major protests erupted across Iran in December 2017, the majority of the country's lawmakers signed a letter calling for a state ...

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

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

January 18, 2018

A majority of Iranian lawmakers have signed a letter calling for a ban on foreign social media apps to support state-led efforts to drive Iranians toward using state-approved domestic ...

Iran Unblocks Widely Used Messaging App Telegram After Two Weeks

Iran Unblocks Widely Used Messaging App Telegram After Two Weeks

January 12, 2018

 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 ...

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

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

January 10, 2018

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 ...

Iran’s Severely Disrupted Internet During Protests: “Websites Hardly Open”

Iran’s Severely Disrupted Internet During Protests: “Websites Hardly Open”

January 2, 2018

For the first time since the mass protests of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tighter than usual restrictions on internet access to curb the distribution of images, videos and reports ...

US Repeal of Net Neutrality Harms Internet Freedom at Home and Abroad

US Repeal of Net Neutrality Harms Internet Freedom at Home and Abroad

December 21, 2017

December 21, 2017 -- The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal net neutrality rules has given a green light to repressive countries like Iran to continue trampling on ...

Rouhani Admin’s New “Fair Usage” Internet Price Rates Violate Net Neutrality

Rouhani Admin’s New “Fair Usage” Internet Price Rates Violate Net Neutrality

December 7, 2017

Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi. Seven months into President Hassan Rouhani’s second term, his Telecommunications Minister Mohammad ...

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