[anti-censorship-team] Turkmenistan's tor users face mass bridge blocking

gus gus at torproject.org
Wed Apr 26 06:03:14 UTC 2023


Hi,

I contacted you off list.

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 07:44:21PM +0500, Ahmet Orakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm Ahmet who actively spread active bridges (in our case) across the
> Turkmenistan. Recent days we face mass blocking and it create issues to
> surface freely on the internet. Authorities in Turkmenistan intend to
> restrict us from using tor browser and any other programs which can give
> access to the external world with the help of modern firewall equipment.
> Our team have managed to find reachable tor bridges, but problem remains on
> bridge's ports cause government in Turkmenistan blocked almost all the
> networking ports. Even reachable bridges by pinging may not often connect
> to the tor browser because of the port issue.
> Here is a few available ports which stay unblocked in Turkmenistan's case:
> 22, 53, 80, 8080, 443, 993, 995, 9999.

Please do not publish bridges IPs on public mailing lists.
A list of bridges fingerprint is fine and we can contact bridge operators with
that info.

Thanks,
Gus

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