(803) Online censorship in Iran - YouTube

How to empower digital rights of activists on the ground? The death of Mahsa Jina Amini in police custody has sparked an unprecedented wave of protest in all regions of Iran. For more than four weeks women of all ages alongside men are taking their anger and demands to the streets. They ask for freedom, dignity, equal rights but as well for a change of the regime. The regime’s violent response has killed more than 200 protesters so far; thousands have been arrested. Internet and digital technology play a key role in the protests, both as means of communication between protesters as well as an outlet to the world. Foreign journalists cannot enter Iran, journalists and activists in Iran entirely depend on the internet to communicate and coordinate amongst each other, from city to city, what is going on in their respective areas and to share this with the outside. The recent shutdowns of mobile internet and the blocking of social media platforms and messaging services can be understood as