America is happy to hitch the Freedom On-line Coalition’s consensus Joint Assertion on Web Shutdowns in Iran.
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We, the members of the Freedom On-line Coalition, are deeply alarmed by and strongly condemn the measures undertaken by Iran to limit entry to the Web following the nationwide protests over the tragic killing of Mahsa Amini. In furtherance of what has develop into a longstanding sample of censorship, the Iranian authorities has to a big scale shut down the Web but once more for many of its 84 million residents nationwide by chopping off cell knowledge; disrupting in style social media platforms; throttling Web service; and blocking particular person customers, encrypted DNS companies, textual content messages, and entry totally.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians depend on these and different instruments to attach with one another and to the skin world. By blocking, filtering, or shutting down these companies, the Iranian authorities is suppressing the best of peaceable meeting and freedoms of affiliation and expression; eroding civic house; reinforcing a continued local weather of financial uncertainty; disrupting entry to healthcare, emergency companies, and monetary companies; stopping funds for salaries, utilities, and schooling; and limiting the power of journalists, human rights defenders, and others to report on and doc human rights violations or abuses which might be going down throughout Web shutdowns, or communications disruptions.
We emphatically name on the Authorities of Iran to instantly carry restrictions meant to disrupt or stop their residents from accessing and disseminating info on-line and from speaking safely and securely. Shifting ahead, we additionally name on Iranian authorities to chorus from imposing partial or full Web shutdowns and blocking or filtering of companies and to respect Iran’s worldwide human rights obligations, together with underneath articles 19, 21 and 22 of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
We proceed to face in solidarity with the Iranian folks of their name to train their rights to freedoms of opinion and expression, each on-line and offline.
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