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 ...
Tag : Blocking Telegram
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 ...
July 26, 2018
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June 19, 2018
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 means for Iranians’ digital rights, ...
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 ...
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 ...
May 12, 2018
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 ...
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 rights ...
May 7, 2018
State-Owned Telecommunications Company Has Yet to Comply With Judicial Order to Block Telegram
President Rouhani Claims Supreme Leader Ordered Ban on Messaging App Used by 40 Million Investigations by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) show ...
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 ...
April 27, 2018
Latest State Action Against Telegram in Iran Slows Access, Doubles Cost for Iranians
The latest move by the authorities in Iran against the messaging app Telegram, used by some 40 million Iranians, has resulted ...
April 18, 2018
Khamenei’s Dropping of Telegram Channel Lays Groundwork for Banning Messaging App
Most Iranians Distrust Domestic Messaging Apps, Will Use VPNs to Stay on Telegram Two days after the secretary ...