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… ...
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June 18, 2018
Sufi Prisoner Mohammad Salas Buried After Sudden Execution Without Family’s Permission
Lawyer: Burial Attended by “200 Anti-Riot Agents” Iranian authorities buried the body of Mohammad Salas after he was executed on June 18, 2018, without his family’s permission at… ...
June 7, 2018
Telegram Channel Admin Could Get Death Penalty For “Insulting the Prophet”
Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned to prison before the treatment… ...
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 Sayedsalehi. Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in Iran Several Iranians posted screenshots on their social media… ...
June 1, 2018
Oxford PhD Student Denied Legal Counsel 40 Days After Being Arrested in Iran
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford University PhD student, has been held without charge… ...
May 24, 2018
Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling on him to… ...
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 was back on the rise three weeks after the state banned the messaging… ...
May 18, 2018
Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines
…After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of internet use in the country by forcing government agencies to… ...
May 17, 2018
Local Police in South Iran Accused of Killing Two Protesters
Protests in Kazeroon Ongoing For Months Over Plan to Divide City At least two people are suspected to have been killed and several wounded after police in the… ...
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 access to or “ filtering ” online and digital content in the country:… ...
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… ...
May 10, 2018
Six Lawyers in Iran File Petition Challenging Ban on Popular Telegram App
…Six Iranian lawyers have presented a legal challenge to a recent judicial order blocking access in Iran to the widely used Telegram messaging and social media app, Telegram. On May… ...