20.02.2006
This report looks at the status of internet in Iran with a primary focus on the issue of filtration. It analyses the current situation of the Internet in Iran, the statutes restricting the freedom of expression including both the public media laws and the laws specific to the Internet, censorship and the methods thereof and the rapid growth of blogging in Iran and the large-scale censorship affecting the weblogs.
18.08.2005
As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.
08.08.2005
Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, speaker in Majlis, said that he inspected the progress made on the Foreign Ministry's information and communication technology (ICT) development projects.
29.06.2005
Internet censorship in Iran is amongst the most restrictive and sophisticated in the world, a technical study has revealed. And much of the filtering technology in use was developed by western companies.
04.03.2003
Even as Iranians log on to find out the first results of last Friday's local elections, there are signs that the Internet may be coming to an end. A number of arrests of online journalists in recent weeks came with warnings from authorities that "illegal" Websites would soon be reined in.
18.02.2003
Iran is ready to support the transformation and upgrading of Zimbabwe's broadcasting systems and strengthen ties in cultural exchange programmes between the two countries, an Iranian official said.
29.01.2003
Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern at the setting up of a commission dominated by religious hardliners in Iran to monitor news Websites considered "illegal". Regime conservatives have kept the Internet and its freedom of expression under attack for nearly three years now, it noted.
25.11.2002
Journalist Siamak Pourzand continues to languish in prison after being convicted by Iranian authorities on vague charges. He reported for foreign-based Farsi-language radio stations, a fact which might partly explain the charges against him.
12.08.2002
Their governments don't like it, but citizens of such countries as Iran and China are turning to the Internet to exchange forbidden ideas and taste a measure of freedom denied them in everyday life. And the authorities have found there isn't much they can do about it.
09.07.2002
Shahkooh, a village 240 miles from Tehran, has built a computer lab to help all interested villagers become computer literate. Classes are free and the village has its own Farsi-language Website, Shakooh.com. Two dozen villagers have become entrepreneurs and the Website is used to market local crafts.
23.06.2002
The past few months have seen a jump in online journals or "blogs" in Iran as more and more women turn to the Internet to discuss taboo subjects. In 2001, approximately 400,000 people were online in Iran and that number is expected to grow to 15 million over the next four years.
29.10.2001
In a letter to the head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, RSF has protested the confiscation of satellite dishes and the arrest of their owners and installers.
02.05.2001
World Press Freedom Day, says Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, "gives us the opportunity to remind those who covertly or overtly are involved in jailing journalists and breaking their pens that they can never kill the thought of freedom."
