Can You Really Get Back on the Internet if Your Government Shuts It Down?

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Azadeak Bari is the director of Alp, a group that fights for women's rights in Iran. She says there are ways to get people back online using old technology and satellite internet. But she warns it may be detected or at least spotted from above by government officials. Azadeak: "The internet is the way we access all other fundamental human rights"

On 13 September Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran’s hijab rules. Three days later she was dead. Since then, videos of anti-regime demonstrations and acts of resistance have gone viral – leading the government to block internet access in parts of Tehran and Kurdistan. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Azadeh Akbari about why Mahsa Amini’s death has sparked so much anger, and hears from Alp Toker about how governments and regimes around the world are able to limit internet access.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod