Originally published on Hauterrfly on September 21, 2022 The kind of atrocities happening to women across the world is worrisome. Recently, the death of an Iranian woman at the hands…
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, launched in 2016, allows people in Iran, primarily…
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 Francisco, she seems tired,…
Originally published on Trend Watching on September 28, 2021. A San Francisco-based non-profit has developed an app to help Iranians bypass surveillance and censorship by their government. Nahoft, which…
Originally published in VICE on September 10, 2021 A California-based nonprofit has released an encryption app it hopes will help Iranians bypass the regime’s internet shutdowns and communicate securely.…
Originally published in WIRED on September 17, 2021. Republished on ArsTechnica. Amid ever-increasing government internet control, surveillance, and censorship in Iran, a new Android app aims to give Iranians a…
Originally published on Rest of World on September 24, 2021 Firuzeh Mahmoudi is executive director of United for Iran, a nonprofit working to advance civil liberties in Iran and…
Iran’s official matchmaking app is little more than an attempt to control women’s bodies through state-sanctioned marriage and childbearing, civil liberties advocates say. “Hamdam,” launched last week, has been described…
Many gifted Iranian artists choose to express themselves and what they stand for at the risk of jeopardizing their freedom. They are constrained by official and unofficial “red tapes” that…
Iranian rights activists are creating hi-tech solutions to promote civil liberties, despite frequent internet shutdowns. A popular uprising took hold of Iran in the final week of 2017, with thousands taking to…
