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Sep 6, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Iran Supreme Council of Cyberspace (SCC) has partially ratified internet Protection Bill that will further curtail online freedoms in Iran, hand over key infrastructure to Supreme Leader controlled agencies.🧵 #طرح_صیانت
Iran Supreme Council of Cyberspace (SCC) will repurpose one of its arms, Supreme Regulatory Commission (SRC) to set bandwidth limits that would in practice determine what online content Iranians can access. The SRC is tightly controlled by the Supreme Leader Khamenei. #طرح_صیانت
Sep 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
Iranians are condemning a revolutionary court sentencing two #LGBT activists, #Zahra_Seddiqi and #Elham_Choobdar, to death for "spreading corruption on earth through promoting homosexuality". Same sex relations are punishable with death in Iran. #زهرا_صدیقی#الهام_چوبدار
Rights monitor @HengawO: Iran revolutionary court has sentenced two #LGBT activists, #Zahra_Seddiqi and #Elham_Choobdar, to death while a third person, Soheila Ashrafi has been charged but not sentenced in relation to the case. #زهرا_صدیقی#الهام_چوبدار
Iranians on Twitter are protesting state persecution of followers of Bahai faith. Amid a wider crackdown on civil liberties —including women rights— the clerical establishment in Iran has jailed prominent Baha'i figures, demolished houses of other followers. #FreeBahaiPrisoners
Many Iranian Twitter users are calling for the immediate release of prominent members of the Baha'i community and former prisoners of conscience Mahvash Sabet, Fariba Kamalabadi and Afif Naimi. #FreeBahaiPrisoners
Aug 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Iranians on Twitter are voicing solidarity with people of Hamadan who last night took to streets to protest an extended water cut. State policies have pushed Iran to the brink of ecological collapse triggering water protests across Iran multiple times. #همدان_آب_ندارد#همدان
Footage from Hamedan water protests show people chanting slogans against the clerical establishment: "death to incompetent officials", "Iran won't prosper until [all] clergymen are buried", "death to [president] Raisi". #همدان_آب_ندارد#همدان
Iran hijab crisis🧵
With the Islamic Republic launching a hijab crackdown (trying to segregate work spaces, deprive women of basic services and violently arresting them) people have planned an act of civil disobedience for tomorrow (July12). #حجاب_بی_حجاب#حجاب_اجبارى
Iranian senior officials have called for women, who do not strictly observe hijab rules to be banned from using subway, baking, government services. #حجاب_بی_حجاب#حجاب_اجبارى bbc.com/persian/iran-6…