Prisoner of conscience Alireza Tavakoli, currently imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison for his social media postings, is hunger striking to be “transferred and treated at a medical center for chickenpox,”… ...
Imprisoned political activist Hengameh Shahidi has been held in solitary confinement for six months with extremely limited access to a lawyer since June 26, 2018, the day she was taken… ...
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… ...
Editor’s Update: Esmail Bakhshi was released on bail on November 21, 2018, and Sepideh Gholian on December 18. Both were freed on bail. Detained labor activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh… ...
Detained labor activist Esmail Bakhshi was hospitalized after being tortured under interrogation, according to Iranian labor sources. Bakhshi’s colleague Ali Nejati was also arrested by security forces on the 25th… ...
Davoudi Eighth Human Rights Attorney to Be Jailed in Iran in Last Six Months Editor’s Update: A one-month detention order has been issued against Amirsalar Davoudi, his lawyer, Vahid Moshkani… ...
Beloved Blogger Broke Taboos by Writing About Political and Social Issues with Humor November 29, 2018—The death in exile of prominent Iranian satirist Alireza Rezaei has prompted an outpouring of… ...
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… ...
Tehran-based trade union activists Ebrahim Madadi (right) and Davoud Razavi have both been sentenced to five years in prison for engaging in… ...
The corpse of Iranian activist Farshid Hakki was found burned in the trunk of his car near his home in Tehran on October 17, 2018. The lawyer representing the family… ...
Security Forces Hijack Teachers’ Union Telegram Channel Four teachers who participated in a peaceful sit-in for teachers’ and education rights in Iran this week remain behind bars five days after… ...
Sign language interpreters at a gathering in Tehran on the occasion of 2018’s International Week of the Deaf. Members of Iran’s deaf and hard of hearing community… ...
Iranians have taken to social media to call for the freedom of Mehdi Hajati, a member of the Shiraz City Council who was arrested on September 27, 2018, two days… ...
Detained Iranian political activist and journalist Hengameh Shahidi has defied a judge’s order by refusing to hire a new lawyer. “I have been trying to visit my client since her… ...
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… ...
…But Ineffective in the Long Run In a new move aimed at tightening the state-imposed ban on the Telegram messaging app, the Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI) temporarily rerouted Telegram… ...
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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… ...
Well-known journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested upon leaving a hospital in Iran’s Kish Island after strongly criticizing state policies on social media and in interviews with foreign… ...
This report is the outcome of a joint project by Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI, formerly the International Campaign for Human Rights in… ...
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… ...
Lawyer: Burial Attended by “200 Anti-Riot Agents” Iranian authorities buried the body of Mohammad Salas after he was executed on June 18, 2018, without his family’s permission at a burial… ...
Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned to prison before the treatment was completed…. ...
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… ...
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford University PhD student, has been held without charge and access… ...
