During a June 1 political rally for presidential candidate Hassan Rohani in Tehran (pictured), security forces reportedly arrested several youth campaign workers after slogans were chanted supporting the detained 2009 election opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Photo credit: Siamak Ebrahimi/Tasnim News (June 10, 2013) Iranian authorities should immediately stop censoring newspapers and news websites, […]
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300 leading dissidents: Release Tajzadeh from solitary and give him medical attention
More than 300 Iranian activists have issued a statement demanding an easing on the restrictions on Mostafa Tajzadeh, one of Iran’s most prominent pro-reform figures, who is currently serving a six-year jail term in the quarantine ward of the notorious Evin Prison.
Dissidents declare national day of mourning for quake victims
Close to 300 Iranian activists, journalists and dissidents have set the 16th of August as a national day of mourning for the victims of the deadly twin earthquakes that hit northwestern Iran last weekend.
Iranian and Syrian dissidents targeted by spyware
A proxy tool used by people in Iran and Syria to bypass local censorship controls seems to be the victim of a new strain of spyware.
Iranian minister says university no place for ‘dissidents’
Iran’s Minister of Science and Technology has stressed once again that students who were involved in the 2009 protests will not be allowed to study in Iranian universities and that Iran’s institutions of higher education will not be run according to Western standards.
Rogue web certificate could have been used to attack Iran dissidents
Flaw could have let attackers steal passwords and data from apparently secure connections to Google sites such as Gmail Security analysts have warned that attackers could have exploited a faked web certificate to eavesdrop on Iranian dissidents using Google sites such as Gmail.