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He kept silent over the request of Shirin Ebadi to visit [213] Iran after the crackdown on peaceful post-election protests by the Iranian police. [214] During the election protests, more than 4,000 were arrested and nearly 70 were killed (with some sources, including Mohsen Kadivar, citing hundreds of killed), some while being held in prison. [215]
Later that day, riot police armed with live ammunition and tear gas dispersed a crowd of between 200 and 1,000 protesters who had gathered in Tehran's Haft-e Tir Square. The protests followed online calls for tribute to Āghā-Soltān and others killed during the demonstrations. [56] Cāspian Mākān, following Agha-Soltan's death, escaped to ...
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 ...
Iranian protesters burn trash in the streets of Tehran as demonstrations spread to 15 cities across Iran overnight over the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the country's morality police ...
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]
Mahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma and died following her arrest in Tehran last week by the morality police, sparking demonstrations in Tehran and the Kurdistan province from which she came.
[10] But this was challenged by another source which stated that satellite pictures of the demonstration showed it having "far, far fewer people there than at recent opposition rallies, which numbered in the millions," and that instead of congregating in Azadi Square in Tehran, where the regime had "traditionally organized mass rallies to ...
STORY: On a video released on Tuesday (November 15), the crowd can be heard chanting: "I am a free woman. You are the pervert. You are the whore," on a train platform.A separate video released on ...