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Online publishers, developers sentenced to death in Iran

By Danny O'Brien/CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator on January 20, 2012 1:24 PM EST

Politically-related Iranian prosecutions often take place in near secrecy, with unclear charges morphing and changing over time. It doesn’t get any easier to work out the motivations of prosecutors when the charges are connected to technology.

Imprisonments jump worldwide, and Iran is worst

December 8, 2011 12:01 AM EST

Stark regional differences are seen as jailings grow significantly in the Middle East and North Africa. Dozens of journalists are held without charge, many in secret prisons. A CPJ special report

Ali Akbar Javanfekr, far left, director of the official Iranian News Agency, is among those recently charged. In this file photo, he attends a June presidential press conference. (Reuters/Caren Firouz)

Iran unleashes another wave of arrests and repression

November 22, 2011 3:21 PM EST

New York, November 22, 2011–Iranian authorities have engaged in a series of attacks against the press in the past two weeks, including raiding a news office, banning an independent newspaper, and arresting at least five journalists.

Iranian authorities arrest four more journalists

October 18, 2011 4:15 PM EDT

New York, October 18, 2011–Iranian authorities arrested four journalists who work for reformist newspapers and are expected to charge them with antistate crimes, according to news reports.

Iranian students barred for beliefs, say campaigners

By Communications on October 18, 2011 3:54 PM EDT

In May 2007 the CPJ expressed outrage over the arrest of four student editors, including Puyan Mahmudian, in the run up to student elections at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. This article from CNN.com describes how despite spending months in prison and confessing to charges against him, Mahmudian and hundreds of others are blacklisted…

Iranian hacker dupes Google, activists worried

By Communications on September 27, 2011 3:44 PM EDT

After reporting on fraudulent https certificates presumably being used by the Iranian government to spy on internet users, CPJ’s Danny O’Brien explains the impact of this security breach on journalists and activists in a radio interview with Public Radio International’s The World. Click here for the full story.

Iranian journalist dies in Afghanistan

September 22, 2011 4:29 PM EDT

New York, September 22, 2011–Farhad Taqaddosi, a cameraman for Iran’s Press TV, died in a Kabul hospital on Tuesday of injuries he sustained in the Taliban’s September 13 attack on prominent international buildings in Kabul, the station reported.

Iran frees hikers, many journalists remain imprisoned

September 21, 2011 1:39 PM EDT

New York, September 21, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the news that U.S. journalist Shane Bauer and his friend Josh Fattal were released today on US$1 million bail by the Iranian government after two years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, according to news reports.

Iran arrests six documentary filmmakers

September 19, 2011 6:33 PM EDT

New York, September 19, 2011–Iranian authorities have arrested six independent filmmakers on vague accusations that they engaged in a foreign conspiracy in connection with a critical new documentary about Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to news accounts. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrests and calls for the journalists’ immediate release.

Farsi guides to the surveillance attack in Iran

By Danny O'Brien on September 16, 2011 4:23 PM EDT

As we’ve reported before, there’s strong evidence that forces with widespread access to Iran’s internet infrastructure have been engaged in large-scale surveillance of https traffic in July and August, certainly of Google traffic, and perhaps many more websites, including Facebook and Yahoo! If you used the Internet in Iran during this period you should, at…