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Iranian civil rights defender on hunger strike for over 67 days

5 January 2017
Global Voices

The campaign to save civil rights defender Arash Sadeghi has reached a critical point. Two months into his hunger strike, many worry Sadeghi's life is on the line in Iran's Evin prison.

Violations against women journalists and activists continue in Iran

Before this latest wave of harassment, other women’s rights activists, including several journalists, had been summoned and questioned since March.

‎ Reporters Without Borders‎20 December 2016

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Iranians seek freedom and their 'true selves' on social media

"I call it a cultural war between two lifestyles, the one that the government wants people to follow and the lifestyle that people want to have. It's on Iranian social media."

‎ Freedom House‎21 September 2016

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Time for Justin Trudeau to stand by imprisoned web developer Saeed Malekpour

Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident and programmer, was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guard in 2008. Today, he is still trapped in Iran's notorious Evin prison, thousands of miles away from his adopted country of Canada.

‎ Electronic Frontier Foundation‎14 September 2016

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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
Rights groups and cartoonists ask Iranian President Rouhani to help free artist Atena Farghadani

‎ ARTICLE 19

Iran 17 February 2016
Iran releases imprisoned Washington Post journalist held since July 2014

‎ International Press Institute

Iran Free Expression & the Law 18 January 2016
Journalists harassed, jailed in run-up to Iran's parliamentary elections

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Iran Free Expression & the Law 8 January 2016
Exiled but not silenced: Iranian human rights defenders in the diaspora

‎ ARTICLE 19

Iran Free Expression & the Law 9 November 2015
Iran steps up pressure on media with arrests of at least five journalists

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Iran Free Expression & the Law 6 November 2015
Iranian blogger languishes in jail despite serving his full sentence

‎ Human Rights Watch

Digital Rights Iran Free Expression & the Law 3 November 2015
Washington Post correspondent convicted in Iran; details of verdict unclear

‎ International Press Institute

Iran Free Expression & the Law 13 October 2015
Iran steps up arrest and sentencing of teachers as school years begins

‎ Human Rights Watch

Iran Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 23 September 2015
Iran's fearless human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh

‎ IFEX

Iran Censorship Free Expression & the Law 15 September 2015
Intelligent filtering: How Iran aims to create a "halal internet"

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 9 September 2015
Atena Farghadani: Cartoonish law

‎ IFEX

Iran Free Expression & the Law 3 September 2015
The organised suppression of Kurdish journalists in Iran

‎ ARTICLE 19

Iran Censorship Free Expression & the Law 24 August 2015
Jailed journalists in Iran: Overlooking the majority

‎ International Press Institute

Iran Free Expression & the Law 13 August 2015
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian completes one year in arbitrary detention

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Iran Free Expression & the Law 21 July 2015
International Volleyball Federation called on to penalize Iran for its ban on women

‎ Human Rights Watch

Iran 3 July 2015

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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
Computer crimes in Iran: Risky online behaviour

What is the correlation between the online and offline behaviour of Iranian citizens and the likelihood of their arrest in Iran today? Answering this question is the main focus of this new ARTICLE 19 report.

ARTICLE 19 2 July 2015

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