Iran-HRM – Hamid Reza Amini, director of a telegram channel, who has been detained in prison since December 02, 2017 was sentenced by the Branch 57 of the Culture and Media Court to pay 95 dollars in cash for charges of publishing lies to disturb public opinion.
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Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App
CHRI – Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in Iran
Read More »Iranians Reluctant To Switch To Regime-backed Apps
Radiofarda – Despite the Islamic Republic’s official ban on the popular messaging app Telegram, few Iranian users have closed their accounts, and some say fake profiles are appearing for them on regime-linked apps created to replace Telegram.
Read More »NAJA Confronts Café Nets Using Anti-Filters
Iran-HRM – Mehdi Mir-Mehdi the head of Tehran’s Computer Techs Guild Union cited the increase in use of anti-filters during these days and said: “The new chief of site-police of NAJA has notified the union about the regulations of prohibition of using VPN and anti-filters in café nets.”
Read More »How US sanctions will impact Iranian startups
Al-Monitor — On May 8, US President Donald Trump finally carried out his threat to pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran. Agreed on by Iran and six world powers back in 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) still has the support of its remaining signatories, namely the European Union, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. But …
Read More »Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App
CHRI – Three weeks after Iran banned the widely used Telegram messaging app, the telecommunications minister posted a chart online showing that the number of Iranian users had begun rising to pre-ban levels. The posting marks the first time an Iranian official has presented figures implicitly confirming the failure of state censorship policies. cartoon by Taravat Niki, Ghanoon daily On …
Read More »Iranian Officials Call For Unblocking Twitter
RFL/RE – Six Iranian ministers and two lawmakers, all members of the state committee in charge of blocking websites, have issued an open letter to the country’s prosecutor calling for the unblocking of Twitter. The letter was issued in response to “the growing public demands for unfiltering Twitter to allow the activity of the youth and media in [it],” the …
Read More »Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines
CHRI – 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 use domestic, state-approved online search engines.
Read More »Iranian Starts Blocking Internet Filtering Circumvention Tools
Radiofarda – Iran’s Information and Communication Technology Minister announced that based on an order issued by the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, his ministry has started blocking anti-filtering programs or internet filtering circumvention tools, as they are known.
Read More »Eight Internet Freedom Organizations Call on Iran to Lift Ban on Telegram
CHRI – Telegram is Crucial to Accessing Information in Iran and Must Be Unblocked
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