EU lawmaker says Iran uses internet blackouts to hide crackdown
European Parliament member Hannah Neumann said on Friday that Iran was using internet shutdowns to conceal violence against protesters and weaken resistance.
“The Internet shutdown in Iran is not a technical issue. The regime uses it to hide brutality and break the resistance of protesters,” Neumann wrote on X.
“More violence, more arrests, more people disappearing,” she added. “Families [are] left not knowing if loved ones are alive, injured or imprisoned.”
Neumann said the blackouts were a deliberate strategy to “cut people off from help and protection,” “make the regime’s deadly violence invisible,” “silence those under attack” and “prevent the world from seeing the size of the protests.”
“Internet blackouts are a weapon by the #IranianRegime,” she wrote. “Silence is not neutrality. It enables repression. Europe must speak up now!”
