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Ghoncheh Ghavami’s Lawyer Says New Charges Looming Against Her Are Illegal

Ghoncheh Ghavami’s Lawyer Says New Charges Looming Against Her Are Illegal

November 12, 2014

New charges may be brought against Ghoncheh Ghavami, the young woman who was arrested outside a sports stadium in Tehran in June 2014 for trying to attend a volleyball match and who remains in prison. ...

Leading Iranian Figures Support Nuclear Negotiations and Hope for an Agreement

Leading Iranian Figures Support Nuclear Negotiations and Hope for an Agreement

November 12, 2014

November 12, 2014—As the P5+1 negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program between the world powers and Iran approach the November 24 deadline, it is important that the negotiators on both sides of the table take note of the voices of their ...

National Email

November 11, 2014

Developing national email providers has also been a component of government efforts to control and access online content and activities. In 2012, Reza Taghipour, Minister of Telecommunication in the Ahmadinejad administration, wrote letters to his deputy and the Central ...

The National Browser

November 11, 2014

The Iranian government has employed two means to ensure the widespread use of its national SSL security certificates (and thus achieve their root certification). One is through the Iranian web browser, Saina, which is provided by state agencies and into ...

National SSL Certificates

November 11, 2014

National (government-issued) SSL security certificates are also a central component of Iran’s National Internet. SSL certificates ensure that the connection used in any Internet transmission is encrypted and thus secure. When they are issued by a legitimate source, they do ...

Conclusion

November 11, 2014

In 2013, Reporters Without Borders named Iran one of the world’s five worst enemies of the Internet, along with China, Syria, Bahrain and Vietnam. This report by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has shown that if ...

The National Operating System

November 11, 2014

The other means employed by the Iranian government to spread the use of its SSL security certificates is through the national operating system, “Zamin” (or Earth). Zamin was jointly developed by the Information Technology Organization and the Iran Telecom ...

National Search Engine And National Social Networks

November 11, 2014

As part of the National Internet, the Iranian government has also developed services such as a national search engine and national social networks, which are designed and implemented largely by the Ministry of Telecommunication’s Information Technology Company. Hadi Malek, research ...

The Rouhani Administration and Internet Freedom

November 11, 2014

While Hassan Rouhani campaigned for the presidency in Iran on a platform explicitly promoting Internet freedom, one year into his presidency there has been little progress to date on this front. In fact, as this report has shown, development of ...

Seeking International Technology Firms’ Compliance

November 11, 2014

In spite of all the authorities’ efforts to censor the Internet and punish those who seek to use it for social or political activism, the government has yet to achieve full control over the Internet and its use. Recognizing that ...

Security Agencies and the Prosecution of Online Activists

November 11, 2014

In addition to the Iranian state’s efforts to develop the technological infrastructure of Internet control, the Judiciary and security organizations have also pursued the identification and prosecution of online activists. This is done through a variety of organizations, some of ...

National Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

November 11, 2014

One of the principal ways that Iranians have been able to maintain access to the global Internet has been through the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which allow users to circumvent government filters by providing encrypted links to networks ...

Executive Summary

November 10, 2014

Censorship and state control over the Internet in Iran is changing: it is becoming more systemic and less detectable, posing an ever-greater threat to Iranian users. Increasingly, the state is focusing on developing the technological infrastructure to effectively control access ...

Introduction

November 10, 2014

The Rouhani administration has pushed back some--a statement defending the need for open Internet access is made, a block on ...

National Data Centers

November 10, 2014

The National Data Centers are one of the most important infrastructure components of the National Information Network. These Centers will be set up in Tehran and other cities across the country, and will house the various telecommunications and storage systems ...

Internet in Chain

November 10, 2014

The National Internet And Domestic Politics in Iran

November 10, 2014

Officials in Iran have attributed the delays and uneven progress in the development and implementation of the country’s National Internet to technological problems, difficulties created by international sanctions against the country, and budgetary constraints. Yet these delays must also be ...

Security Agencies and the Prosecution of Online Activists

November 10, 2014

The National Information Network (National Internet)

November 10, 2014

HISTORY While the state devoted considerable resources and institutional capacity to filtering the Internet up to this time, a new dimension began during the Ahmadinejad period (2005-2013) regarding Iran’s approach to the Internet. Namely, the development of a national infrastructure that ...

Internet Censorship and Filtering

November 10, 2014

The Internet first became available in Iran in 1993 with the start of dial-up services. Over the next few years, there were no clear guidelines for filtering sites and filtering remained relatively limited, with only intermittent instances of blocking ...

12 Executions inside Orumiyeh Central Prison in 11 Days; 9 of These for Drug Offenses

12 Executions inside Orumiyeh Central Prison in 11 Days; 9 of These for Drug Offenses

November 7, 2014

Twelve prisoners were hanged inside the Orumiyeh Central Prison between October 18 and October 29, nine of these for drug trafficking crimes, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned. ...

Narges Mohammadi Summoned to Evin Prison Court on Unspecified Charges

Narges Mohammadi Summoned to Evin Prison Court on Unspecified Charges

November 7, 2014

Narges Mohammadi, the prominent human rights defender and Deputy Head of the now shuttered Defenders of Human Rights Center, has been summoned to the Evin Prison Court following a moving speech she made at the grave site of Sattar Beheshti, ...

New Hope for Revocation of Death Sentence for Insulting Prophet on Facebook

New Hope for Revocation of Death Sentence for Insulting Prophet on Facebook

November 5, 2014

A Supreme Court branch reviewing the appeal request in the case of Soheil Arabi, a man convicted of “sabb al-nabi” (insulting the Prophet) and sentenced to death, will soon announce its ruling, a source told the International Campaign for Human ...

The Campaign’s 2014 UPR Pre-Session Statement

The Campaign’s 2014 UPR Pre-Session Statement

October 24, 2014

This statement by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran to the UN’s 2014 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Pre-Session ...

31 Nobel Physics Prize Laureates Join Thousands of Activists to Call for the Release of Iranian Physicist

31 Nobel Physics Prize Laureates Join Thousands of Activists to Call for the Release of Iranian Physicist

October 23, 2014

(October 22, 2014) – A delegation consisting of Amnesty International, the Committee of Concerned Scientists, and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran will deliver thousands of petitions and letters collected by these organizations and the American Physical ...

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