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Spotlight: Attacks Iran Censorship

How Iran tries to control news coverage by foreign-based journalists

10 September 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

It is not just BBC Persian employees who are targeted. All international media outlets with Persian-language services are concerned, regardless of the country in which the media are based.

Digital Rights Iran Censorship

Citizen-journalists increasingly hounded by Iran

In Iran, an increasing number of journalists are falling victim to the war between government factions.

‎ Reporters Without Borders‎26 June 2017

Digital Rights Iran Censorship

After campaigning on internet freedom, Iranian president's ICT minister boasts of internet censorship

In his successful bid for re-election, Iranian President Rouhani touted his efforts to protect access to social media platforms in Iran. However, just a few weeks after his victory, his administration introduced new reforms that may further restrict Internet access.

‎ Global Voices‎20 June 2017

Access to Information Digital Rights Iran Censorship

Iran's re-elected administration must make rhetoric reality for free expression online

Following his re-election for a second term in Iran's Presidential elections, ARTICLE 19 urges President Hassan Rouhani to take seriously this opportunity to address failures and gaps in guaranteeing the right to freedom of expression and access to information, particularly online.

‎ ARTICLE 19‎29 May 2017

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Hunger-striking Iranian journalist Hengameh Shahidi could die in detention

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Attacks Iran 14 May 2017
Iran deprives 55 million voters of freely reported news

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Attacks Iran Censorship 9 May 2017
Iran frees Issa Saharkhiz then sentences him to one year in jail

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Iran Free Expression & the Law 2 May 2017
Responsive censorship: Iran cuts live broadcast mid-sentence

‎ Global Voices

Iran Censorship 18 April 2017
Iranian journalist on hunger strike now in critical condition

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Attacks Iran Free Expression & the Law 10 April 2017
'Anti-Islamic' posts may cost Iranian his life

‎ Global Voices

Iran Free Expression & the Law 30 March 2017
Journalists, Telegram administrators arrested and intimidated ahead of Iran elections

‎ ARTICLE 19

Digital Rights Iran Free Expression & the Law 17 March 2017
Iranian editor held months without access to lawyer

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Iran 9 March 2017
Iran issues prison sentence to cartoonist in absentia

‎ Cartoonists Rights Network International

Iran Free Expression & the Law 8 March 2017
The Iranian revolution's 38th anniversary: 38 years of media repression

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Attacks Iran Free Expression & the Law 9 February 2017
Iran's Soft War

‎ ARTICLE 19

Digital Rights Iran 7 February 2017
Iranian civil rights defender on hunger strike for over 67 days

‎ Global Voices

Iran 5 January 2017
Violations against women journalists and activists continue in Iran

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Iran 20 December 2016
Iranians seek freedom and their 'true selves' on social media

‎ Freedom House

Iran 21 September 2016
Time for Justin Trudeau to stand by imprisoned web developer Saeed Malekpour

‎ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Canada Iran 14 September 2016
Adnan Hassan, Iran's longest-held journalist, released from prison

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Iran Free Expression & the Law 12 September 2016
Iran's "Halal Internet"

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 8 September 2016
Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz sentenced to three years in jail

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Iran Free Expression & the Law 16 August 2016
Iran suspends license of reformist newspaper

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 27 June 2016
Why Telegram's security flaws may put Iran's journalists at risk

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Iran 31 May 2016
Iran's "information hero" sentenced to over a decade in jail

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Iran Free Expression & the Law 19 May 2016
Iran sentences three reformist journalists to jail for "acting against national security"

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Iran Free Expression & the Law 26 April 2016
Ahmad Zeidabadi, a journalist banned from practising journalism

‎ IFEX

Iran Free Expression & the Law 11 April 2016
Tightening the Net: Iran's National Internet Project

‎ ARTICLE 19

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 30 March 2016
Iran elections: The change censors couldn't stop?

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Iran Free Expression & the Law 2 March 2016
Children's rights defender Atena Daemi released from Iran's notorious Evin prison

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights

Iran Free Expression & the Law 17 February 2016

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Freedom of the Press 2017: Iran

As of December, there were eight journalists behind bars in Iran, down from 19 in 2015 and 30 in 2014, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Freedom House 27 April 2017
Freedom of the Press 2016: Iran

The Rouhani administration engaged in extensive internet surveillance and interference throughout the year, announcing in January that more than 130 Facebook pages had been closed and more than 30 internet users detained in connection with their online activity.

Freedom House 23 April 2016
Freedom on the Net 2015: Iran

Cartoonist arrested on charges of insulting state officials and spreading propaganda for posting image of reproductive rights vote

Freedom House 31 October 2015

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