Tadden, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

The eagle one.

The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

It was just a video of young people dancing.

In January 31st, a court in Iran handed out a combined sentence of 10 years to a couple who danced outside of a tower in Tehran, Iran.

A film of the brief dance went viral on Instagram and Twitter.

They were 21 and 22 years old.

The woman was not wearing a hijab.

The long sentence for a viral post is part of a pattern in Iran. The country is an authoritarian

regime where protests and acts of rebellion are becoming increasingly common, and in response,

the regime is using technology and violence to suppress its people. Iran is in fact a pioneer

in the use of new technologies like AI and facial recognition to suppress dissent and enforce the will of the state.

With us here to walk through all of this and kind of explain what's going on is Masa Al-Alamardani.

Al-Dani is a senior researcher at Article 19 and a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford.

Iran and its pioneering use of technology for authoritarianism is her area of expertise, I would

say.

Thank you so much for coming onto the show and talking with us about this.

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