Originally published on Swedish Radio on September 25, 2022. The level of atrocities happening to women across the world is worrisome. Recently, the...
Iran Prisons Atlas: Several thousand people are detained in two prisons, Evin and the central prison of Greater Tehran (Fashafouye)
Originally published on Radio Zamaneh on September 29, 2022. Hundreds of protesters have been arrested during the popular uprising against the...
Iranian Rights Group Relaunches An App To Help Women Avoid The Horrors Of A Morality Police
Originally published on Hauterrfly on September 21, 2022 The kind of atrocities happening to women across the world is worrisome. Recently, the...
PRI’s The World : ‘We’re done’: Iranians Use This App to Track Morality Police
Originally published on The World on September 29, 2022 In Iran, a phone app called Gershad is in huge demand right now. The mapping app,...
Stakes turn deadly as Iran’s government threatens the phone apps aiding protesters
Originally published on Coda Story on October 1, 2022. Firuzeh Mahmoudi is rubbing her temples. Speaking on a video call from her home in San...
App encrypts messages as random text, letting Iranians speak freely and securely
Originally published on Trend Watching on September 28, 2021. A San Francisco-based non-profit has developed an app to help Iranians bypass...
Rights Group Launches Encryption App to Help Iranians Survive Internet Crackdowns
Originally published in VICE on September 10, 2021 A California-based nonprofit has released an encryption app it hopes will help Iranians...
A New App Helps Iranians Hide Messages in Plain Sight
Originally published in WIRED on September 17, 2021. Republished on ArsTechnica. Amid ever-increasing government internet control,...
3 minutes with Firuzeh Mahmoudi
Originally published on Rest of World on September 24, 2021 Firuzeh Mahmoudi is executive director of United for Iran, a nonprofit working to...
Iran Launched a Matchmaking App Because Young People Aren’t Procreating
Iran’s official matchmaking app is little more than an attempt to control women’s bodies through state-sanctioned marriage and childbearing, civil...