Rasoul Jalili
- sd, Tehran (Tehran Province) (18 Oct 2021 - 7 Mar 2022)
- Member of the Supreme Council for Cyberspace (0000 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Censoring and Blocking free access to internet ( 2011-Present ) read more
- Institution
- Supreme Council of Cyberspace
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of expression, Right to privacy
- Description
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As a member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, he has been involved in drafting and approving regulations with the purpose of blocking, censoring, and filtering the internet and prosecution of cyberspace users.
- Sources
Decree on the formation and appointment of members of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, National Cyberspace Center website, 2011 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/shora-1.pdf
Appointment of new members of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, Ali Khamenei official website, 2015 https://justice4iran.org/persian/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/shora-2.pdf
“Rewiring Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace”, Small Media, https://smallmedia.org.uk/news/rewiring-irans-supreme-council-of-cyberspace
“Iran Cyberspace Supreme Council Among 20 Worst Digital Predators in 2020”, Radio Farda, 12 March 2020 https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-cyberspace-supreme-council-among-20-worst-digital-predators-of-2020/30483664.html
- Other Information
- Human Rights Violation: Censoring and Blocking free access to internet ( 2011-Present ) read more
- sf, Tehran (Tehran Province) (7 Mar 2022 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of Right to Freedom of Expression (September 2023- Present) read more
- Location
- Tehran (Tehran Province)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of expression
- Description
- Rasoul Jalili , in his capacity as the president of Sharif University, is responsible for the violation of right freedom of expression through the suspension and expulsion of professors from this university. In the 2022 protests, universities played a prominent role in protests and supporting the protesters. Professors at this university have been expelled from their positions for protesting and expressing support for students in the 2022 protests.
The 2022-23 protests began following the death of Mahsa (Gina) Amini on September 13, 2022, in the detention of the morality police of the Islamic Republic. These protests quickly spread across the country and are remembered as the largest revolutionary uprising against the government since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The Iranian government responded to these protests with deadly violence.
According to human rights organizations, the security forces of the Islamic Republic have killed at least 551 people, with a minimum of 68 of them being children.
- Sources
- Ali Sharifi-Zarchi, Sharif University professor, was expelled
- Human Rights Violation: Violation of Right to Freedom of Expression (September 2023- Present) read more
Rasoul Jalili, and the two companies he founded, Peyk Asa and AmnAfzar Gostar Sharif, were placed on the US Treasury Department's sanctions list in November 2012. They were placed on the list for "their connection or role in censorship, human rights abuses by the Iranian government, and support for terrorism." The US Treasury Department said in a statement: "Rasoul Jalili has been seeking access to SMS-monitoring equipment since February 2008 and has been actively involved in the Iranian government's censorship of the Internet since late 2011. "AmnAfzar Gostar Sharif Company, of which Rasoul Jalili is one of the founders and head of its board of directors, has an effective role in restricting the free access of Iranian users to the flow of information by producing" Shield "filtering software."