In this event, on 17 April, we look at how technology is used to target women and human rights defenders and discuss what can be done to protect their rights. You will meet:
• Mahsa Alimardani, Senior Researcher, Article 19.
• Gerald Folkvord, Political Adviser, Amnesty Norway…

Be wary of OSINT-branded accounts recycling faked & old footage of airstrikes, explosions, interceptions etc.

It happens every time, but in New Twitter they have a direct financial incentive to push out inflammatory nonsense.

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With the world's eyes on a potential Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel, the Iranian authorities have relaunched their domestic campaign of harassment and violence against Iranian women over mandatory hijab laws.

Here, a woman tearfully recounts how morality police tried to…

درخواست از شهروندان:
روایت، شواهد و تصاویر خود از برخورد ماموران پلیس به دلیل حجاب اجباری را برای دادبان ارسال کنید

همزمان با تشدید تهدیدات پلیس در کلان‌شهرها در برخورد با شهروندان به دلیل حجاب اجباری، گزارش‌ها از افزایش قابل توجه برخوردها و رفتارهای غیر قانونی ماموران پلیس با…

As the U.N. Sixth Committee considers the draft crimes against humanity treaty, Shadi Sadr writes that Iran’s new restrictions on women show the need to codify gender apartheid as a crime.

justsecurity.org/94504/iran-hij…

Really looking forward to delving into this report about Persian Wikipedia. Some important questions about how this community can operate in spaces like Iran that are so heavily censored and surveilled, led by Omid Shams. Wikimedia Foundation Justice for Iran somo.nl/wikipedias-cha…

گزارش سازمان عدالت برای ایران و مرکز تحقیقات شرکت‌های چندملیتی (SOMO) درباره نفوذ، کنترل و سانسور در ویکی‌پدیای فارسی منتشر شد.
ویکی‌پدیای فارسی در کنترل حکومت ایران
justice4iran.org/persian/projec…

The Niloufar’s Wall at the International Environment House in Geneva is now celebrating #NiloufarBayani ’s new life chapter: “Freedom”.

Niloufar’s colleagues at UN Environment Programme were waiting for this moment for over 6 years.

The devastation in Gaza is reaching unprecedented levels. Recent reports shed light on how the use of facial recognition and AI-powered tools is contributing to the suffering and killing of civilians.

article19.org/resources/isra…

Alireza Naderlou was invited by the regime to perform martial arts at the Quds Day ceremony in Iran.

He declined, & was reportedly harassed by regime forces.

He was later thrown on subway tracks & hit by a train. A judge has forbidden the review or release of security footage.

It looks like a state sponsered attack…but this wasn’t an attack against me but the job I do and the platform I have”.

Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati talks to me following the stabbing outside his home last week.

The official Instagram account of United World Wrestling is urging its followers to download RUBIKA, to vote for an Iranian wrestler.
RUBIKA is an app developed in Iran and previously banned by Google Shield.
This move raises concerns about why they are promoting an app deemed…

#نیلوفر_بیانی هم دقایقی پیش آزاد شد.

This new World Bank - #UN report shows that the estimates of the Gaza destruction used in my 'Anatomy of a genocide' report were conservative.

The report exposes a level of erasure of a society that is unprecedented in our time:
worldbank.org/en/news/press-…

Israel is disappearing unknown numbers of Gazan men into a camp where they're blindfolded, all limbs shackled, tortured, where medical care means getting a hand amputated because the metal cuffs cut into it and caused an infection.
cnn.com/2024/04/06/mid…

We should be celebrating these bright minds winning awards and achieving their goals of saving species going extinct and the environment. But in Iran we celebrate their freedom from barbaric and unjust imprisonment.