After protest gathering by Gonabadi Dervishes in recent weeks and following the increase of summons of Dervishes to the security police via SMS and phone and illegal security behavior in dealing with them, some full-time officers were appointed to chase some scholars and influential Dervishes and keeping them under surveillance.According to reports by Majzooban […]
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Iranian Police Boast Presence Monitoring Social Media
Iran’s Cyber Police are actively monitoring Iranians’ activity on the internet, Colonel Massoud Zahedian, Commander of the Morality Police, told ISNA today. “The Police are present on the Internet and are monitoring environments such as Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, etc.,” he said. As several members of the Rouhani cabinet, including Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, […]
Monitoring Iran: One Year into the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran
Download PDF of report (www.iranhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/monitoring-iran-march-2012-final.pdf) In March 2011, in response to escalating violations of international law and Iran’s ongoing non-cooperation with UN human rights mechanisms, the United Nations Human Rights Council mandated a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.