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December 6, 2022

Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances

At Least 574 Known Students Arrested in Less Than Three Months, Actual Number Much Higher December 6, 2022 – Iranian police and state security forces have arrested at least 574… ...

November 21, 2019

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

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 Iran. App Would Expose Users… ...

November 19, 2019

Lethal and Excessive Force Against Protestors in Iran Must Cease, News Blackout Must End

November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant… ...

July 16, 2019

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

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… ...

July 9, 2019

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

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… ...

May 30, 2019

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

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… ...

May 8, 2019

Official Admits to “Defeated” Attempt to Move Iranians Over to State-Sponsored Messaging Apps

Hamid Fatehi, a deputy minister at the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology One year after Iran blocked access to the Telegram messaging app, used by a reported 40 million… ...

April 18, 2019

Iranians Push Back as Officials Threaten to Block Instagram in Retaliation for Banned IRGC Accounts

Some Iranian officials have responded to Instagram’s decision to remove accounts it has associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by pushing for a nationwide ban on the popular… ...

April 5, 2019

Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Accused of Giving Influencers “Perks” to Help Bury Security Ties

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi Denies Future Presidential Bid Amid rumors that Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi is eyeing a future presidential bid, investigations by the Center for Human… ...

April 2, 2019

Iranian Official: State Bans on Social Media Apps Have Slowed Flood Relief

Iranians Ask Why Apps that Could Hasten Relief Remain Blocked State filters on social media apps have reduced the efficiency of relief operations in flood-hit regions of Iran, according to… ...

March 1, 2019

Millions of iPhone Users Unable to Use Iranian Apps Due to Apple Certificate Revocation 

A new move by the Apple Corporation aimed at protecting user data has resulted in Iranian apps becoming unusable on the iOS mobile operating system as of February 27, 2019,… ...

January 30, 2019

Renewed Pressure in Iran to Block Instagram After Activist’s Post About Torture Makes Headlines

A labor activist’s widely read Instagram post alleging he was tortured while in the custody of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry was never fully investigated but one judicial official did respond by… ...

January 4, 2019

Judicial Official Announces Order to Block Instagram Less Than a Year After Banning Telegram Messaging App

Judicial Order Tied to Previously Undeclared Policy of App Usage Level Eight months after Iran blocked the country’s most widely used messaging app, Telegram, a deputy prosecutor has announced a… ...

December 17, 2018

Why Did Telegram Warn Users That Iranian Versions of the Telegram App—Talaeii and Hotgram—Are “Unsafe”?

Iranian Client Apps Are Violating Telegram’s Terms of Service by Failing to Protect User Data December 17, 2018 – In response to a rising chorus of concerns by internet security… ...

December 17, 2018

Iran’s Oil Minister Joins Twitter, Reigniting Calls for All Iranians to Be Allowed to Use Social Network

Twitter Banned in Iran Since 2009 But Many Officials Are Active Users Iranians from across the political spectrum responded to the new presence on Twitter by Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh… ...

November 13, 2018

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 an elite branch of… ...

August 17, 2018

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 in Iran, a hardline judicial official has said doing so… ...

August 15, 2018

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 state… ...

August 1, 2018

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 Telegram messaging app, the Telecommunications… ...

June 1, 2018

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 posted screenshots on their social media accounts May… ...

May 24, 2018

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… ...

May 22, 2018

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 banned the messaging… ...

May 18, 2018

Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines

After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of internet use in the country by forcing government agencies to… ...

May 11, 2018

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… ...

May 6, 2018

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

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… ...

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    Iran: State’s "Investigation" of Bar Association Aims to Crush Dissent
    June 28, 2023
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    June 21, 2023
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    June 19, 2023
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