Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights ...
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights ...
Authorities’ Efforts to Crush Dissent Will Also Crush Livelihoods February 24, 2022 - A proposed bill that would drastically increase the Iranian authorities’ ...
Members of civil society in Iran including a city councilman, soccer player, and journalists were detained or summoned for questioning after criticizing the Iranian ...
Hundreds of protesters and bystanders were killed in Iran last November when armed forces waged a violent crackdown on widespread demonstrations. Yet Iranians continued to risk their lives ...
Instagram influencers in Iran are being forced to censor their posts and give their account passwords to intelligence agents amid a renewed crackdown on freedom of expression and speech. Investigations by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) indicate that dozens of Iranians with ...
Nooshin Jafari Detained and Used as Bait to Gain Control Over Anti-Government Twitter Account A tearful audio message containing the voice of Nooshin ...
Investigations by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) indicate that dozens of Iranians with large followings on Instagram—including athletes, fashion models ...
After 30 people were arrested for practicing yoga inside a home in the Iranian city of Gorgan, several individuals based in the country ...
Authorities’ Focus on Political Activists while Violent Individuals Go Unnoticed on Social Media Following the killing of Mostafa Ghasemi, a cleric in the city ...
Some Iranian officials have responded to Instagram’s decision to remove accounts it has associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by pushing ...
A labor activist’s widely read Instagram post alleging he was tortured ...
Held Without Access to Lawyer, Bakhshi Beaten During 25-Day Detention January 4, 2018—The beating and torture of ...
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 ...
Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has been sentenced and fined in Iran for posting a photo to ...
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 ...
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 National Internet Network (NIN), which gives the government newly expanded abilities to control Iranians’ access ...
A lawsuit has been filed in an Iranian court against the CEO of the ...
Instagram’s live video feature has been blocked in Tehran by several internet and mobile phone providers since ...
Eight Arrests and Scores Interrogated in "Project Spider 2" May 17, 2016—Eight people working in Iran’s fashion industry have been ...