Iran’s 90 million people have been cut off from the internet for most of 2026, one of the world’s longest and strictest ...
Not a single day of 2025 passed without at least one internet shutdown. That's the striking opening to the latest annual report from digital rights group Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition. It has ...
As Putin imposes Iran-style controls, citing security concerns, many Russian fear losing their connection to the global ...
Governments around the world continued to impose restrictions on internet access in 2025, often in response to political tensions and public unrest. According to data from Surfshark, political turmoil ...
On 8 January 2026, Iranian authorities implemented a nationwide internet blackout that resulted in connectivity to the global internet declining by approximately 98% within 84 hours. This blackout did ...
Digital censorship analysts argue current outage is mostly about survival and control for the country’s rulers ...
Mobile internet blocking affects rights and freedoms of internet users, preventing them from accessing basic services. This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 31 March 2026. Peaceful ...
Iran's Internet shutdown has now surpassed 1,248 hours or 52 days, making it the longest national-level blackout since Libya's outage of nearly six months during the Arab Spring in 2011. But the ...
Iranian authorities cut access to internet on 28 February leaving many with limited information about war ...