Iran
ONI Blog: Iranian Blogger Receives Heavy Jail Sentence
Reuters reports that an Iranian journalist blogger received a fourteen-year prison sentence for charges of insulting the state's leaders and espionage. This is part of the crackdown on Iranian journalim that includes Internet filtering....
- Posted on 23/Feb/2005; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: The Risks of Blogging in Iran
The BBC covers the crackdown on bloggers in Iran. Blogs have become an important forum for political and other expression in Iran, and the moves to control this content are in line with Iran's overall Internet filtering....
- Posted on 21/Feb/2005; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Report: Internet Filtering in Iran in 2004-2005: A Country Study
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1. Executive Summary
2. Political, Technical, and Legal Context in Iran
A. Internet Infrastructure and Access
B. Media Regulation
C. Internet Access Regulation
D. Internet Content Regulation
3. Testing Methodology
A. Methods
B. Results Analysis
C. Methods Specific to...
ONI Blog: Confronting U.S. censorship ... from Iran
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Human Rights activist and lawyer, is suing the U.S. Treasury Department because the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) prohibits the publications of books by Iranian authors (unless the work is completed...
- Posted on 26/Nov/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Internet Content Filtering in Iran: Verification of Reported Banned Websites
As part of its ongoing research into Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide, including in Iran, the ONI connected to remote computers in Iran and tested the RSF list and the blacklist obtained by stop.censoring.us. We found that Iran is indeed engaged in...
Report: Bulletin 004. Internet Content Filtering in Iran: Verification of Reported Banned Websites
August 13, 2004
Last Updated: August 13, 2004
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Conclusions
- Methodology & Limitations
Background
Access to the Internet in Iran is presently subject to official censorship, although the precise scope and scale of the filtering is unclear....
Report: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
Advisory 001
Last modified: May 5, 2004
I. Executive Summary
Internet access in Iran is subject to official censorship. Iranian authorities' guidelines for ISPs and users reportedly warn them to avoid all content seen as being in breach of social and cultural norms.[1]...
- Posted on 04/May/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention
ONI Blog: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
ONI testing found that filters built in to the IBB Anonymizer service block access to numerous non-pornographic pages and sites. Some of these apparently unintentionally blocked sites are themselves blocked within Iran, resulting in a situation where sites are effectively doubly blocked...
- Posted on 03/May/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention
