Iran

Iran

79 million people

4,520 USD GNI (PPP)

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Press Releases Iran: Disrupting Telegram Harms Iranian Citizens April 26, 2018 Iranian authorities have begun disrupting access to Telegram, the country’s most popular social media platform of around 40 million monthly users.	Joint Letters Renew the Mandate: Keep the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran March 12, 2018 Iranian and international human rights organizations urge the governments of the United Nations Human Rights Council to support the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
Press Releases Iran: UN Human Rights Council Should Investigate Deaths and Abuses of Detainees March 1, 2018 Iran is detaining more than 4,000 protesters, hijab protesters, and members of minority groups.	Press Releases Iran: Authorities Should Free ‘Girl of revolution street’ Campaigners February 7, 2018 Law enforcement authorities should immediately release the 29 women detained for removing their headscarves in protest of a discriminatory compulsory hijab law.

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Safety on the Line: Exposing the myth of mobile communication security

This report evaluates the risks and vulnerabilities of mobile phone services and apps in 12 specified countries, analyzing multiple mobiel technologies to determine their capacity to protect security and privacy and to combat censorship and surveillance.
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Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools

Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online.

This document provides a comparison among different circumvention tools, both in terms of their technical merits, as well as how users of these tools describe their experience with them. The countries included in this report are Azerbaijan, Burma, China and Iran.

Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks

The government of Iran is teaching the country's children to discriminate against women and minorities, to view non-Muslims with suspicion if not contempt, and to perpetuate the regime's theocratic

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Iran: Disrupting Telegram Harms Iranian Citizens

Renew the Mandate: Keep the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran

Iran: UN Human Rights Council Should Investigate Deaths and Abuses of Detainees

Iran: Authorities Should Free ‘Girl of revolution street’ Campaigners

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