As coronavirus spreads in Iran, authorities have moved swiftly and aggressively to contain independent reporting about it by harassing, detaining and censoring journalists and social media users.
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Iranian intelligence agents raid homes of 4 journalists
Iranian authorities should cease raiding journalists’ homes and should return all material confiscated in recent raids, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today
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Iranian culture ministry said to have outsourced book censorship
A conservative news website in Iran published the leaked contents of a contract between the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and a private company, charging that the ...
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U.S. State department gives congress list of Iranian human rights abusers
The United States Department of State has sent a list individuals and entities of the Iranian regime who are responsible for or complicit in certain human rights abuses in ...
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Iranian parliament investigates mixed parties at embassies in Tehran
In a parliamentary notice on June 10, eight conservative MPs asked the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Culture and Islamic Guidance to elaborate on recent mixed-gender parties attended by ...
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Escalating crackdown on free expression in Iran
It was reported on Tuesday that the Iranian woman who sparked a large-scale protest movement against the country’s forced veiling laws has been freed from prison. But the news ...
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