CNN reports that a combination of brutal government crackdowns and a tightening of control over the internet is making information from Iran much harder to come by.
(CNN) — Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.
Once emboldened by their ability to dodge the government and spread news about their protests to the world, many in the youth-driven protest movement, they say, are now scared of the consequences of getting caught.
“It’s absolutely chilling,” said Drewery Dyke, a member of human rights group Amnesty International’s Iran team. “The level of fear that has permeated society now, in terms of this issue, is palpable. It’s striking.
“There’s an absolute hunkering down by the people.”
