Top Sociologist Barred from Leaving Iran: My Covid-19 Book Upset the Regime
Saeed Madani, an Iranian sociologist and journalist, learned this month that he had been barred from leaving the country. The IRGC blocked him at the airport from boarding a flight to Connecticut, ahead of a planned one-year sabbatical at Yale University.
Popular Azadi Square Clubhouse Room Shut Down by Court Order
Media activist Hossein Razzaq has been summoned to the intelligence office in the city of Amol, Mazandaran province, and forced to close his popular Clubhouse room. For the last six months Razzaq and fellow activist Vida Rabbani have hosted regular chats in a room called Azadi Square for Iranians to discuss daily social and political events in their country. Iranian citizens abroad often took part.