US EditionDeath toll from Iran’s protests reaches at least 646 and is expected to rise further, activists say
At least 646 killed and over 10,700 detained in nationwide protests against economic hardship and clerical rule, says U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
- The death toll from Iran's nationwide protests has reached at least 646 people killed, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
- Pro-Government demonstrators flooded the streets in support of the Iranian theocracy, chanting 'Death to America!' and 'Death to the enemies of God!'
- Iran's attorney general has warned that anyone taking part in protests will be considered an enemy of God, a death-penalty charge.
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Three weeks after the start of the first protests in Iran, the mobilizations and repression of the police forces continue. The number of deaths proven, which comes with a drop in the news blockade, is over 3,500, according to the latest data from the IHRNGO human rights NGO. The Norwegian-based organization claims that it is verifying hundreds of more deaths and that the figure “is minimal.” Continue reading
For more than a week, Iranians have been cut off from the world while violent repression has broken down on anti-regime protesters. Iranian NGO Iran Human Rights is talking about at least 3,400 deaths and tens of thousands of arrests. The number of evidences of massacres throughout the country continues to increase, according to Human Rights Watch. Despite the risks, Iranians both inside and outside the country are trying to organize themselves …
The protests in Iran began on 28 December with a strike by mobile phone sellers at a shopping mall in the Iranian capital, and by the beginning of January, the unrest had reached almost all the major cities of the country, initially causing dissatisfaction with high inflation and the depreciation of the national currency, but the protesters quickly moved from economic demands to political demands.
At least 3,428 people have been killed since the beginning of the movement by Iranian forces, a figure that could be only a fraction of the actual balance sheet.
"The massacres perpetrated since 8 January are unprecedented in the country," says Human Rights Watch.
The wave of protests in Iran has for the moment been stifled by a violent repression that has killed thousands, estimated on Friday experts and NGOs, almost three weeks after the beginning of the protest movement.
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