Chinese Tech Offers Blueprint For Iran’s Digital Crackdown, New Report Says

(Reid Standish – RFE/RL) A new report by a British human rights group says Iran’s system of Internet control draws extensively on Chinese technology, enabling authorities to disconnect the country’s 93 million people from the global Internet during the height of January’s anti-government protests. The report, released this week by Article 19, details the policies and imported hardware behind the expansion of Iran’s censorship system and describes how surveillance technologies first implemented in China’s Xinjiang region against the Uyghur population are now being used in Iran. – Chinese Tech Offers Blueprint For Iran’s Digital Crackdown, New Report Says