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Tag : internet freedom

February 9, 2016

New App that Detects Morality Police is Instant Hit in Iran

Authorities Block App within 24 Hours of Its Debut A smartphone application aimed at helping Iranian users avoid the country’s morality police became a smash hit immediately after ...

February 1, 2016

Call for Prime Minister Trudeau to Secure Release of Imprisoned Iranian-Canadian

February 1, 2016— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should extend all efforts to obtain the release of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident and web develop imprisoned in Iran ...

January 28, 2016

Internet Freedom in Iran Will Benefit From Sanctions Relief

Increased foreign investment and access to foreign companies’ technology products in Iran now that sanctions against Tehran have been lifted will not only aid the country’s ailing economy, ...

January 25, 2016

US-Iran Prisoner Swap Raises Hopes for Iranian-Canadian Prisoners of Conscience in Iran

The release of Iranian-Americans in the recent prisoner exchange between Iran and the United States has given hope to the family of prisoner of ...

January 25, 2016

Why are Iranian-American Prisoners Released, but Not Iranian Ones?” Father of Imprisoned Blogger Asks

“Why has the Islamic Republic agreed to the release of Iranian-American prisoners but they won’t free our own prisoners who are the children of ...

January 15, 2016

Telegram CEO Rejects Iranian Government’s Claims of Censorship-on-Demand

The head of Telegram, the most popular social media network in Iran, has again categorically denied making any concessions to Tehran regarding censorship. ...

January 11, 2016

Netflix Opening to Iran Ends State Broadcasting’s Decades of Monopoly

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s near total monopoly on the broadcast of film and television series has effectively ended following the January 7, 2016, ...

January 7, 2016

Popular Telegram Messaging Application Survives Censorship Vote in Iran

State Filtering Body Refuses to Block the Service An official Iranian state censorship body has resisted calls by hardliners in Iran to block ...

January 7, 2016

Soccer Star Arrested for Online Photos With Women despite Evidence His Account was Hacked

Legal Expert Decries Refusal to Release Sosha Makani on Bail till Investigation is Completed Sosha Makani, Persepolis soccer club goalkeeper and member of ...

November 21, 2015

Popular Instant Messaging Applications Severely Interrupted in Iran

A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use of Telegram violated Iran’s ...

October 27, 2015

Arrested Student Activist Under Intense Pressure to Make False Confession, Says Family

Amin Anvari’s mother, Farah Bakhshi Student activist Amin Anvari, 21, who received a suspended prison ...

October 21, 2015

Telegram Reveals Iranian Government’s Request to Spy on Its Citizens

Telegram, which unlike Twitter and Facebook is not filtered in Iran, has emerged as one of the leading ...

October 1, 2015

Sister of Saeed Malekpour Says Family Hopes for a Pardon for Imprisoned Web Developer

Saeed Malekpour Prisoner of Conscience, Serving Life Sentence, is Finally Allowed In-Person Family Visits after a Year Prisoner of ...

October 1, 2015

Facebook Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for “Insulting the Prophet”

Soheil Arabi and his family Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was ...

September 28, 2015

Judiciary Silent on Status of Tech Expert almost Two Months after His Arrest

Arash Zad, Information Technology Expert Nearly two months after the arrest of information technology expert ...

September 17, 2015

Telegram Denies Claims by Iranian Government that it Has Servers in Iran

The popular instant messaging service Telegram has dismissed claims by Iranian officials that a third of the data from its Iranian users is ...

September 14, 2015

Khamenei Consolidates Power over Internet Policy in Hard Line Council He Controls

On September 5, 2015, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei re-appointed the members of the Supreme Council of ...

August 4, 2015

Facebook Activist Details How She Received a Seven-Year Prison Sentence in Iran

Naghmeh Shahsavandi Shirazi One of the eight Facebook activists sentenced to long prison sentences in 2013 for social and political commentary posted on their Facebook pages, has asserted that she was ...

July 2, 2015

Telegram Messaging Service Interrupted in Iran after Authorities Condemned its “Immoral” Stickers

The Telegram messenger service confirmed on June 29 that problems which have emerged in its service in Iran were due to domestic technical issues inside the country. In a message on its Twitter account, Telegram said it was ...

July 2, 2015

Facebook User Will Not Be Executed, Lawyer Says

The death sentence against Facebook user Soheil Arabi for allegedly insulting the Prophet has been annulled, his lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “On June 27, I heard the death sentence against my client has been ...

May 18, 2015

Basij Militia Unveils Messaging App that Gives State Access to All Conversations

Officials hope Salam will lure users away from applications such as Viber and WhatsApp that are hugely popular ...

April 23, 2015

Cartoon 112: Facebook Users Get Five to Seven Years in Prison

An appeals court in Tehran has sentenced six individuals to prison terms ranging from five to seven years for postings on their Facebook pages. Two additional individuals are facing as of ...

September 24, 2014

Viber Company Refutes Tapping Claims by Iranian Officials

"You should know from the cases the Iranian Cyber Police has pursued and concluded that personal messages ...

May 14, 2014

Bill to Ban VPNs Would Cut Internet Access

The use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) by millions of Iranians to circumvent strict state censorship of the Internet could become a crime if a bill currently being discussed by the Iranian Parliament becomes law. ...

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