RSF indicates that Iranian authorities closed 14 news media outlets between June 2013 and June 2014 (RSF 18 June 2014).ġ.1 Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) 2014, 36).īased on a joint submission by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Paris-based League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), the UN Human Rights Council indicates that in the period between 20, authorities banned 35 news publications, issued 106 warnings to news media, and revoked the licenses of 11 news publications and 1 news agency (UN 7 Aug. This is corroborated by the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI), which states in their report entitled Internet in Chains: The Front Line of State Repression in Iran that hardliners in the security and intelligence services are 'active in the persecution of online activists' and that arrests of online activists has increased since Rouhani's inauguration (ICHRI Nov. RSF further noted that the judiciary and intelligence agencies continue to subject journalists and 'netizens' to 'injustices and persecution' (ibid.). Similarly, RSF stated in June 2014 that there 'has been no significant improvement in freedom of information' in Iran despite the election of 'moderate conservative' Hassan Rouhani as President of Iran in June 2013 (RSF 18 June 2014).

2014), ranks Iran as 173rd of 180 countries in their press freedom index and describes Iran as 'ne of the world's most repressive countries as regards freedom of information' (ibid.18 June 2014).Īn August 2014 report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran states that despite government officials making statements in support of greater press freedoms, 'laws and policies continue to place overly broad restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and access to information' (UN 27 Aug. Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), a Paris-based NGO that monitors 'attacks on freedom of information worldwide' (RSF 10 Mar. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based organization that 'promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal' (CPJ n.d.), ranked Iran as the fourth-most-censored country in the world in 2012 (ibid.

Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.įreedom House, in its report entitled Freedom on the Net 2013, states that in Iran 'traditional media outlets are tightly controlled by the authorities' (Freedom House 2013, 3). UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Iran : information sur la capacité de surveillance du gouvernement et le contrôle qu'il exerce, y compris sur la censure des médias et la surveillance de l'utilisation d'InternetĬanada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Government surveillance capacity and control, including media censorship and surveillance of individual Internet activity, 16 January 2015, IRN104972.E, available at:

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