“Balancing Security and Privacy: Lessons from Iran’s Surveillance Tactics / Alireza Goodarzi”

The real world is not like a movie or a novel. In the real world, there are no spies with small devices taking pictures from behind tall walls, and no “big brother” watching inside our homes, lest someone have secret notes. At least our imagination is that we have not yet reached that point. But […]...

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Privacy in Public Spaces: A Human Rights Perspective/ Ehsan Haghani

Since legal systems gradually became instruments for exerting individual power over individuals and enforcing obedience to the commands of authority, the nature and use of laws have changed and turned into systems for reflecting the collective will and safeguarding individual rights. Systems based on the rule of law have emerged, increasingly emphasizing the importance and […]...

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The Struggle for Anonymity in Iran / Abdullah Bai Lashki

With the advancement of technology and increase in global communication, the sanctity of privacy and the shield of anonymity are facing unprecedented challenges. This struggle is nowhere more evident than in countries where government surveillance casts a shadow over everything. Iran, with the use of a powerful surveillance apparatus, appears as a focal point for […]...

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Censorship and Censor; A Journey Traveled / Seyed Mohammad Sahafi

1- In 43, I was six years old when they took me to Savak Qom to visit my father who was in temporary detention at the branch of this organization on Station Street in Qom. They had taken him there to punish and intimidate him because he had been selling and distributing the banned book […]...

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Hijab in the Islamic Republic; goal or means? / Keyumars Amiri

Roujan is an 11-year-old girl who is studying in fifth grade in Karaj. Before going to school, she had a happy and sweet life in a warm family environment with her parents, sister, and brother. She was free and full of energy in her childish imagination. But since she had to go to school and […]...

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The Naked Life of Unregistered Baloch Children/ Marzieh Mohabbey

I cannot let go of the enchantment of those glances, and I cannot understand the bright light in the eyes of the children who were forever bound in the attack of Pakistan’s missiles on a village in Saravan, located in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. I cannot understand which race, nationality, or ethnicity the flow of […]...

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Suicide on the last day of autumn/ Hope Aghdami

In the early days of December this year, the ILNA news agency reported on the suicide of two workers at the Chavar Ilam petrochemical plant on the last day of autumn. With the suicide of these two workers, the number of suicides in this petrochemical complex has reached six in the past two years. A […]...

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Internet Execution Season/ Barbod Mirage

The chain of deliberate and unintentional events in the government of Ebrahim Raisi has led to the satisfaction of the internet in Iran reaching its lowest level. The 34% increase in internet prices was the final link in this chain that brought us to this point. But why have governing institutions, especially the government, raised […]...

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Freedom of thought and resistance against cultural limitations / Mehrdad Naghibi

The dismissive and belittling approach towards independent intellectuals was not limited to the post-revolution and the rule of the Islamic Republic, but even before the revolution, independent intellectuals were also subjected to ridicule and threats from the ruling government. The approach of negating intellectualism has not only been promoted and justified by the government, but […]...

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A Look at the Human Rights Situation in Iran in 2023 / Morteza Hamounian

The year 2023 AD also passed with all its ups and downs. It was a year that was greatly influenced by the protest movement in Iran, which had started the previous year. The violent crackdown on protesters continued during this year as well. Many of the protesters from the 1401 movement were still imprisoned and […]...

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