Iran

The mere mention of a controversial election figure got a state media reporter cut off from a live report in mid-sentence.

Henghameh Shahidi is a journalist who has been on hunger strike since her arrest on 9 March 2017. She is currently held in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin prison.

Despite serving in the military and being the grandson of a “martyr”, Iran’s Sina Dehghan faces the death penalty over social media posts the Revolutionary Guards considers “insulting”.

The recent arrests and intimidation of administrators and journalists using the social media platform Telegram, risks silencing citizens who seek to exercise their right to expression and information during the election process.

Iranian security forces raided the home of Tahereh Riahi, social affairs editor at Iran’s government-funded Borna News Agency, and detained her on December 27, 2016.

Cartoonist and board member at Cartoonists Rights Network International Nik Kowsar has been sentenced in absentia to four years in prison by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court.

Iran is now one of the world’s biggest prisons for media personnel, with a total of 29 journalists and citizen-journalists detained.

A new ideological tech initiative aims to keep Iranian citizens isolated from the rest of the world. Will it work?

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.

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

“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.”

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.

Adnan Hassan, an ardent defender of the Kurdish cause, was arrested in 2007 and initially sentenced to death. After two re-trials and almost ten years in prison, Hassan is now free.

The “National Information Network” is quickly becoming the nemesis of Iran’s dissenting online voices.

A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced the prominent Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz to three years in jail on August 8 for “insulting the Supreme Leader” and “propagating against the state,” according to his lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, and news reports.

The newspaper’s website said the ban was implemented to “prevent a crime,” after the paper was accused of “publishing falsehood with the intent to cause disrupt in public opinion.”