DeFFI | Defending Free Flow of Information Organization

March 2024: Monthly Report on Violations of Journalists’ and Media Rights

Periodic Reports April 2, 2024

March 2024 began with the continued imprisonment of at least 10 journalists and media activists in Iran's prisons and detention centers. These...

Quarterly Report on the Suppression of Media and Journalists in Iran; First Quarter of 2024

Periodic Reports April 2, 2024

This analytical-statistical report is the first quarterly report of the Defending Free Flow of Information (DeFFI) organization for 2024. It includes data...

Over a Month Halt in Holding Press Courts: Has Media Repression Decreased?

Recommended Reports March 24, 2024

It's been over a month since the last briefing by the spokesperson of the jury of political and press courts regarding the...

Abubakr Tohidi, an Iranian media activist, has been released from Zahedan prison

News March 24, 2024

Abubakr Tohidi, a media activist and one of the cameramen for Makki Mosque in Zahedan, was released from Zahedan Central Prison on...

Hana Khalaj, Photographer, Dismissed from IRNA News Agency

News March 13, 2024

Hana Khalaj, a photographer for the IRNA news agency in the Qazvin center, was dismissed from the media outlet on March 11,...

Reports

Silencing Voices: An Overview of Media and Journalist Repression in Iran (2024 Annual Report)

Examination of Press Freedom Indicators in the First 100 Days of Masoud Pezeshkian’s Presidency

September 2024 monthly report: Martial Law in the Press

News Highlights

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, has been released

Nine; the number of imprisoned journalists in Iran

Iranian-American journalist, Reza Valizadeh, sentenced to 10 years in prison

News

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, has been released

Mehrdad Aladin, a journalist and documentary maker, has been arrested

Nine; the number of imprisoned journalists in Iran