Category: protest

Several media activists and bloggers were arrested in various cities in Iran

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Following the severe human rights violations in Iran, four media activists and bloggers critical of the Islamic Republic have been arrested in Tehran and Shiraz in recent days. According to credible sources, following the recent widespread protests against the Islamic Republic authorities and institutions, which began in the third week of November 2019 and spread throughout Iran, a wave of arrests of student and media activists, bloggers, and critics began. On Wednesday, November 19, Hamed Zahraei and Amir Hamzeh Safizadeh were arrested in Shiraz. On Thursday, November 20, Behnam Karimi…

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UN and Amnesty International Condemn the Crackdown on Iran Protests

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On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that dozens of people have been killed in continuing protests across Iran – mostly by live ammunition. Rupert Colville, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: “We are deeply concerned by reported violations of international norms and standards on the use of force, including the firing of live ammunition, against demonstrators in Iran during the protests that began on Friday and have continued into this week. We are especially alarmed that…

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Iran Protests: Heavy Punishment for the Regime

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“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.” These are the words of the famous French author Guy de Maupassant, underlining the right of the people to take their rights. The Iranian regime’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini claimed victory after killing 120,000 people of Iran and said that the story of resistance in front of this regime is over. Now his successor, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is confessing about the resistance of…

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3,700 people were arrested during Iran protests, lawmaker says

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Roughly 4000 people were arrested during recent anti-Regime protests in Iran, one of the country’s lawmakers claimed on Tuesday. Police and Sepah also arrested a large number of demonstrators in Tehran protests. The number is far higher than the 450 people Iranian authorities previously said were detained. US officials had put the number held at 1,000. Tehran member of parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi said Tuesday that 3,700 people had been arrested, including 40 to 68 students, in 5 days of protests that broke out in late December. He added that “due…

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