Iran

78 million people
Internet:
Not Free
Press:
Not Free
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Freedom House strongly condemns the court decision to uphold a death sentence for Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani after he refused to renounce his Christian faith, and joins the White House and US

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Special Reports

Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools

Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online.
 
This document provides a comparison among different circumvention tools, both in terms of their technical merits, as well as how users of these tools describe their experience with them. The countries included in this report are Azerbaijan, Burma, China and Iran.

 

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Freedom House supports Iran's pro-democracy movement and human rights defenders as they resist the Iranian regime’s surveillance and repression.