US EditionArrests of Protesters Continue to Roil Iran Weeks After Demonstrations, Government Crackdown
Authorities have detained over 50,000 people including students and professionals, using surveillance and raids amid ongoing efforts to suppress dissent, activists say.
- Protests erupted across Iran in late December due to anger over spiraling prices, peaking on January 8 and 9 with hundreds of thousands protesting across the country.
- In the following weeks, Iranian security forces conducted sweeping arrests, detaining more than 50,000 people according to one report, including students, professionals, and activists from various sectors.
- Those arrested have often been held incommunicado without access to family or lawyers, making it difficult to track detainees amidst an internet blackout imposed by authorities.
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Iran’s crackdown continues: arrests, disappearances and fear after mass protests
Weeks after crushing nationwide demonstrations, Iranian authorities are conducting sweeping raids, detaining protesters incommunicado and tracking them through surveillance, as tensions rise over possible US action and calls grow for regime change
Winnipeg Free Press
Widespread arrests roil Iran weeks after security forces crushed protests
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
Two Iranian human rights organisations have set up 700 executives on Saturday in the Place de la Monnaie in Brussels, with the photos of 1,540 victims of the repression of demonstrations in Iran. The ASBL Hengaw and Mala Kurd want to encourage the European and Belgian authorities to increase diplomatic pressure on Tehran. Early January, a major mobilization against the Iranian regime was repressed in blood. Human rights organisations report thou…
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