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Spotlight: Attacks Iran Censorship

Flood emergency triggers crackdown on journalists in Iran

1 May 2019
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Around 30 journalists and citizen-journalists have been summoned, questioned or arrested in the past few weeks.

Iran Censorship Free Expression & the Law

Nasrin Sotoudeh: Iran's fearless human rights defender

Fearless and outspoken, Nasrin Sotoudeh is one of Iran's most well-known human rights defenders. Harassed by the authorities for years, Sotoudeh was recently sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.

‎ IFEX‎16 March 2019

Iran Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced to 38 years in prison

Sotoudeh will also receive 148 lashes for charges including 'propaganda against the state'.

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)‎15 March 2019

Iran Free Expression & the Law Gender

Forty years of state lies: RSF unveils leaked Iranian justice file

No fewer than 860 journalists and citizen-journalists were prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned and in some cases executed in Iran between 1979 and 2009.

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎12 February 2019

Latest from Iran

Iranian authorities re-arrest two activists who allege they were tortured during detention

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Attacks Iran Free Expression & the Law 24 January 2019
Iranian authorities are escalating their crackdown on lawyers

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Iran Free Expression & the Law 18 December 2018
Family planning scholar arrested on vague accusations in Iran

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Iran Free Expression & the Law 8 December 2018
Iran mounts crackdown on teachers and labour activists

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Attacks Iran Freedom of Assembly 22 November 2018
Iran's judiciary convicts at least 24 protesters in unfair trials

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Iran Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 5 November 2018
Iran continues targeting of dual citizens and foreigners

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Iran Free Expression & the Law 28 September 2018
Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh goes on hunger strike

‎ Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

Attacks Iran Free Expression & the Law 1 September 2018
Sufi website journalists sentenced to long jail terms, flogging in Iran

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Digital Rights Iran Free Expression & the Law 22 August 2018
Iranian authorities harassing and threatening families of activists and journalists

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Attacks Iran Free Expression & the Law 12 August 2018
In Iran, environmentalists face arbitrary detention

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Iran Free Expression & the Law 6 August 2018
Atena Farghadani: Cartoonish law

‎ IFEX

Iran Free Expression & the Law 17 July 2018
Ahmad Zeidabadi, a journalist banned from practising journalism

‎ IFEX

Iran Free Expression & the Law 17 July 2018
Arrests of Instagram celebrities in Iran are another attack on online freedoms

‎ ARTICLE 19

Iran Censorship Free Expression & the Law 13 July 2018
In Iran, access to information law provides important tool for environmental activists

‎ ARTICLE 19

Access to Information Iran 4 July 2018
Prominent rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested in Iran

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Iran Free Expression & the Law Gender 16 June 2018
Telegram channel creator could get death penalty for "insulting the Prophet"

‎ Global Voices Advox

Digital Rights Iran Free Expression & the Law 16 June 2018
Iran: Block on Telegram is a blow to freedom of expression

‎ ARTICLE 19, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Access to Information Digital Rights Iran Censorship 13 May 2018
Iran: Increased support for UN human rights scrutiny needed amid crackdown on dissent

‎ ARTICLE 19

Digital Rights Iran Freedom of Assembly 1 March 2018
Two Iranian journalists arrested, beaten, now reportedly in a coma

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Attacks Iran 25 February 2018
Revolution anniversary - 39 years of news control and censorship in Iran

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 13 February 2018
Iran goes after journalists to quell protests

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Digital Rights Iran Freedom of Assembly 7 January 2018
US citizen Xiyeu Wang serving 10-year term in Iran threatened in prison

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Attacks Iran Free Expression & the Law 11 December 2017
The Hamdam App: Breaking taboos and empowering Iranian women

‎ IFEX

Access to Information Digital Rights Iran Gender 25 October 2017
How Iran tries to control news coverage by foreign-based journalists

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Attacks Iran Censorship 10 September 2017
Citizen-journalists increasingly hounded by Iran

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 26 June 2017
After campaigning on internet freedom, Iranian president's ICT minister boasts of internet censorship

‎ Global Voices Advox

Digital Rights Iran Censorship 20 June 2017

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Iran

Dozens of people were detained for online activities, including administrators of social media pages or chat groups who were forced to delete or deactivate them

Freedom House 16 November 2017
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