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 currently debating whether… ...
Crowd Attempts to Protect Woman From Police A woman who was pushed off a utility platform in Tehran by a policeman for peacefully protesting against Iran’s compulsory hijab law was… ...
Clashes among members of a predominantly peaceful minority faith in Iran and security forces have resulted in a discussion on social media among Iranians about the use of violence as… ...
A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order was attacked with police fire and tear gas near the home of the faith’s spiritual leader, Nour Ali Tabandeh, in… ...
Two lawyers representing the family of recently deceased Kavous Seyed-Emami have issued a statement countering the claims made in a short film that was aired on a state-funded TV program… ...
Some pollsters who were gauging views about Iran’s December 2017 protests have been arrested, according to Mohammad Aghasi, the head of the Iranian Students Polling Agency (ISPA). “It was difficult… ...
Police arrested more than 30 protesters on the fourth day of a strike by hundreds of workers on February 4, 2018, at a major sugar plant near the city of… ...
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 ban on foreign social media… ...
“I am a professional Iranian singer but I am only allowed to work if I perform with a man, which… ...
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 alternatives…. ...
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 state-imposed internet disruption during the… ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani struck a more conciliatory tone in reacting for the second time to a wave of protests that have recently swept across dozens of Iranian cities. “Some… ...
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… ...
Guards at the Gate: The Expanding State Control Over the Internet in Iran by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), examines the key policy and technological developments regarding… ...
Despite the more marginalized role of the president and his ministries, the implementation of internet policies, if not the policy making itself, remains in the hands of the Ministry of… ...
The Rouhani administration’s record on blocking sites has also not supported his stated support for internet freedom. To be sure, his administration has on several occasions resisted the blocking of… ...
…in Iran. For example, the messaging application Telegram, which remains unblocked in Iran and has 40 million registered users there, has turned into one of the main sources of news… ...
An example of unauthorized access to the Telegram account of a journalist in Iran, discovered and analyzed by CHRI. One of the… ...
Malware is a computer program that runs spyware with the aim of collecting information or eavesdropping on the victim after the spyware is installed on a computer or mobile phone…. ...
An example of penetrating the Telegram account of a reporter by stealing the authentication codes sent via text. Phishing is a type of attack that tricks the users… ...
CHRI’s research indicates that during Rouhani’s first term (2013-2017), cyberattacks on the social networks accounts of civil and political activists, journalists, academics and influential cultural figures have dramatically increased. CHRI… ...
Formerly imprisoned reformist commentator Issa Saharkhiz has called on Iran’s government and lawmakers to reaffirm the people’s constitutional right to protest. “There have been members of Parliament and government officials… ...
Guards at the Gate: The Expanding State Control Over the Internet in Iran by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), provides a detailed analysis of internet policy and… ...
To the Rouhani administration The Rouhani administration should pledge not to cut off or disrupt in any way Iranians’ access to the global internet, and it should not allow its… ...
…large files, video streaming, the use of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol, used in messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal), video conferencing and other services that greatly increase… ...
