Since Iran’s Constitutional Revolution in 1905 and the birth of modern media in the country, successive Iranian governments have intimidated, imprisoned, tortured and killed journalists and activists who use the media to share information with others. This pattern of brutality has worsened since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Islamic Republic has consistently been one of the world’s worst perpetrators of crimes against journalists and information activists for the past four decades.

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Iran is the 173rd out of 180 freest countries in the world

Article 19 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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Iran's Wall of Shame

Keyvan Samimi

Keyvan Samimi is a journalist, political activist, director of the now-suspended Nameh monthly publication, editor-in-chief of the Iran Farda publication and a member of the Council of National-Religious Activists of …

Aliyeh Motallebzadeh

Aliyeh Motallebzadeh is a photographer, vice president of the Association to Defend Freedom of the Press and a women's rights activist. Motallebzadeh has been an active member of the "One …