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Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
Internet Filtering Committee (Iran) headed by Prosecutor-General of Iran decides which websites must be censored and implements this vast censorship. In response to the 2019 Iranian protests , the government implemented a near-total Internet shutdown, reducing traffic to just 5% of normal levels.
Telegram messenger played a major role in spreading the news about the protests and served as the primary platform to unify the protesters. [14] On 30 December, the Iranian government requested the closing of a Telegram channel called "Amad News" (AMAD standing for Agaahi, awareness, Mobaareze, combat & Democracy) operated by Roohollah Zam which called for use of handmade explosives against ...
Telegram did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment about how much content was removed and whether any channels or accounts were banned as a result. “Telegram Search is meant for ...
The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN. The documents, dated October 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called “Middle ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest of ...
On 2 December 2014, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned jw.org. In August 2014, a number of websites were blocked as the war in Donbass developed, including the Ukrainian news site Glavnoe.ua , [ 27 ] a survey about the separation of the Caucasus from Russia [ 28 ] and numerous announcements and commentaries about the "march for ...
Reporters Without Borders described Iran as “one of the world’s five biggest prisons for media personnel" in the 40 years since the revolution. [1] In the Freedom House Index, Iran scored low on political rights and civil liberties and has been classified as 'not free.' [3] Iran has strict regulations when it comes to internet censorship.