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Tag : Telegram

April 30, 2018

In a Desperate Move to Squash Internet Freedom, Iran Blocks Telegram

Ban Unlikely to Stop Most of Telegram’s 40 Million Users in Iran April 30, 2018--The Iranian Judiciary has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block ...

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 of ...

April 17, 2018

Senior Official: Telegram App Could Be Blocked “At Any Moment”

Education Ministry Bans Telegram on Campuses On the same day the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council told a radio program that the widely ...

April 10, 2018

Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps

Religious Ruling Follows News That Widely Used Telegram App Will Soon Be Blocked Following a recent flurry of public criticism of ...

April 5, 2018

Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative

Decision made at the “highest level” has set the stage for blocking social network used by 40 million. App can be blocked on ...

March 26, 2018

Official Suggests Iran May Soon Block Access to Widely Used Telegram Messaging App

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February 3, 2018

170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

 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 ...

January 18, 2018

Majority of Iranian MPs Call For Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

A majority of Iranian lawmakers have signed a letter calling for a ban on foreign social media apps to support state-led ...

January 12, 2018

Iran Unblocks Widely Used Messaging App Telegram After Two Weeks

 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 ...

January 10, 2018

Internet Cut-Off During Recent Unrest in Iran Reveals Tehran’s New Cyber Capabilities

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 ...

December 26, 2017

Independent Iranian Journalist Facing Prosecution For Criticizing Powerful Politician

Detained after criticizing a powerful local lawmaker, Sina Ghalandari, an independent journalist based in the city of Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, has been released on ...

December 21, 2017

Two Journalists Held for Months Without Charge Released on Bail

After four months in arbitrary detention, Iranian journalists Sasan Aghaei and Yaghma Fashkhami...

December 7, 2017

Rouhani Admin’s New “Fair Usage” Internet Price Rates Violate Net Neutrality

Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi. Seven months into President Hassan Rouhani’s second ...

November 22, 2017

Iran’s Snapp Taxi App Violates User Privacy Rights by Spying on Users’ Phone Data

Iranian users of an Uber-like Iranian-made app recently discovered that the app had spied on their phone data ...

November 18, 2017

Iranian Official Threatens “Restrictions” on Social Media Networks That Reject State Censorship Policies

A senior official representing Iran’s top internet regulation body has threatened to take action against social media applications that refuse to comply with the country’s strict censorship rules ...

October 10, 2017

Iranian Officials Increase Pressure on Telegram App to Comply With Censorship Policies

The Amad News channel on the Telegram messaging application. ...

September 28, 2017

Iran’s Judiciary Sues Telegram CEO to Adopt Censorship Policies

A lawsuit has been filed in an Iranian court against the CEO of the ...

August 31, 2017

Pro-Rouhani and Reformist Social Media Admins Sentenced to Prison in Iran

Six administrators of Iranian reformist political channels on the Telegram messaging network have been sentenced to terms ranging from two to ...

August 13, 2017

With Eye on Telegram, Internet Body Says All Social Media Apps Must Store Data Inside Iran

The Supreme Cyberspace Council in session. To improve Iran’s ...

August 4, 2017

Some Detained Reformist Telegram Channel Admins Released on Bail Until Trial

CHRI obtained an Instagram photo showing the minister posing ...

July 31, 2017

Judicial Official Threatens Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister With Criminal Charges Over Telegram

Photo caption: Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi (right) and Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi Iran’s Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi ...

July 27, 2017

Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions   

Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content ...

July 22, 2017

Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Pledges To “Get Rid of” Foreign Social Media Despite Past Failed Attempts

President Hassan Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi has refuted criticism that he has been unwilling to block online content deemed immoral by ...

July 5, 2017

Telegram App Submits to Russian Registration Requirement. Will it Do the Same in Iran?

The announcement by the CEO of the Telegram messaging application that he has agreed to register his firm in Russia has raised concerns about whether ...

July 5, 2017

Detained Pro-Rouhani Telegram Channel Admins Repeatedly Denied Legal Counsel Three Months After Arrests

Mohammad ...

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