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Filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi released The Green Wave, a Documentary film about the protests and human rights violations in Iran in 2009. Iranian American artist Shaheen Shokoofandeh produced the film Hitler's Grave to show what the world of Iran could be without the daily hatred against the world outside its borders.
Following the 2009 Iranian presidential election, protests against alleged electoral fraud and in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi occurred in Tehran and other major cities in Iran and around the world starting after the disputed presidential election on 2009 June 12 [1] and continued even after the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as President of Iran ...
A witness said, according to The New York Times, that "many demonstrators on Wednesday were taken to protest sites by dozens of buses and were given free chocolate milk, and the Associated Press said the government had given all civil servants the day off to attend the rallies". [9] Participants numbered in the tens [9] or hundreds of thousands ...
The demonstrations were part of the 2009 Iranian election protests and were the largest since June. In December 2009, the protests saw an escalation in violence. [1] [2] [3] In response to this protest, pro-government protesters held a rally in a "show of force" three days later on 30 December (9 Dey) to condemn Green Movement protesters. [4]
The Iranian Green Movement (Persian: جنبش سبز ایران) or Green Wave of Iran (Persian: موج سبز ایران), [1] also referred to as the Persian Awakening or Persian Spring by the western media, [2] refers to a political movement that arose after the June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential election and lasted until early 2010, [3] in which protesters demanded the removal of Mahmoud ...
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, [1] [2] with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, [3] and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast.
2009 Iran poll protests trial refers to a series of trials conducted after 2009 Iranian presidential election. Over 140 defendants, [ 1 ] including prominent politicians, academics and writers, were put on trial for participating in the 2009 Iranian election protests . [ 2 ]
While participating in the Ashura protests of the 2009 Iranian elections on 27 December 2009, she was arrested, and held in Tehran's Evin Prison. Iranian prosecutors initially said she belonged to the militant monarchist group Kingdom Assembly of Iran , and charged her with setting up an anti-regime organization and spreading anti-regime ...