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A somber scene unfolded on Oct. 6 in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court that underscores the brutal clampdown on dissent in Iran. Seven political prisoners, including seasoned activists and young ...
Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the ...
Salehi had become a key voice of anti-government dissent in Iran, strongly criticizing the repressive nature of the Iranian regime through his musical output and social media posts. In October ...
All schools and higher education institutions were also closed in Iran's Kurdish regions, signifying the government's concern about the ongoing dissent according to The Guardian. [110] Protests continued in dozens of cities across the country.
Public protests took place in several cities in Iran beginning on 28 December 2017 and continued into early 2018, sometimes called the Dey protests. [26] The first protest took place in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city by population, initially focused on the economic policies of the country's government; as protests spread throughout the country, their scope expanded to include political ...
On 14–17 March, protests by retirees and other sectors across Iran, Urmia and other areas, which was gripped with dissent weekly by pensioners and retirees, was held in protest at rising inflation, demanding their pensions adjusted with the rising inflation rate and the skyrocketing prices. They also protested their long-delayed pensions.
Iran holds a parliamentary election on Friday seen as a test of the clerical establishment's popularity at a time of growing dissent over an array of political, social and economic crises. The ...
ARTICLE19, "Tightening the Net: Internet Freedoms in Iran"-a monitoring series of reports on the state of internet censorship in Iran. Hejazi, Arash, ‘You don’t deserve to be published’ Book Censorship in Iran, LOGOS: The Journal of the World Book Community , Volume 22, Number 1, 2011, pp. 53–62(10) , doi : 10.1163/095796511X562644