Iran Poised to Allow Military Full Control Over Internet, Messaging Apps
Bill Claims to Protect “Digital Borders” by Trampling Internet Freedom, Privacy After repeated denials by Iranian officials about the existence of a bill that would allow ...
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Judicial Official Refuses to Lift Iran’s Ban on Twitter Despite Growing Use by State Officials
Iran's hardline prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. After several state officials called on President Hassan Rouhani to make Twitter accessible ...
Rouhani’s Telecom Minister Has Not Fulfilled Most of the Nine Pledges He Made Since Starting His Post
Since Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi was approved by Iran’s Parliament as the minister of Information and Communications Technology on August 20, 2017, internet control, censorship and surveillance by the ...
Iran’s Telecommunications Company Illegally Reroutes Telegram App Traffic
Move Designed to Tighten Ban on App But Ineffective in the Long Run In a new move aimed at tightening the state-imposed ban on the ...
Iran’s Forcing of Teenage Girl to Confess on State TV for Posting Dance Video Prompts Strong Outcry
Authorities Ramp Up Crackdown on Social Media July 9, 2018—Forcing a teenage girl to confess on state TV for the “crime” of posting a video of herself dancing on Instagram represents a blatant ...
Iran Telegram Ban Strangles Country Amid Struggling Economy, Protests
This report examines the Iranian Judiciary’s ban on the Telegram messaging app, which as of 2018 was integrated into all aspects of daily life in Iran and had some 40 million active users in the country. It assesses what it ...
Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App
The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam Sayedsalehi. Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in Iran Several Iranians ...
Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling on him to lift the state’s ban on ...
Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has revealed that the number of Telegram users in Iran was back on the rise three weeks after the state ...
Iran’s Telegram Ban Reveals New Authority By Judiciary to Directly Order Online Content to Blocked
Iran’s ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app has revealed a new state tactic for blocking access to or “filtering...
Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram
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 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 ...