Rasoul Jalili
- Member of the Supreme Council for Cyberspace (2011 - 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
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."