Digital rights: Iran steps up internet crackdown one year after Mahsa Amini death
SANAM MAHOOZI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that one year after nationwide protests erupted in Iran, people suffer rolling internet blackouts, but create an online freedom community to fight for digital rights…
Overnight protests rock Tehran, other Iranian cities, videos show
Reuters Protests rocked Iran again overnight Thursday after seeming to have dwindled in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The marches in numerous cities including Tehran that began on Thursday evening and went on into the night marked 40 days since the […]
Marchers in south-east Iran denounce top leader in renewed protests
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing Iran’s supreme leader in the restive south-east of the country on Friday, while a human rights group said at least 100 detained protesters were facing possible death sentences. There have been demonstrations across the country against the clerical leadership since mid-September after the death in detention […]
Iran celebrates 1979 US embassy seizure amid anti-government protests
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iran held state-sponsored annual rallies on Friday marking the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, as the clerical establishment that has ruled since then struggles to suppress nationwide protests calling for its downfall. Radical students cemented Iran’s Islamic Revolution by storming the embassy soon after the fall of the […]
Tens of thousands march in Berlin in support of Iran protests
Berlin, Germany/Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in a show of support for protesters in Iran where unrest ignited by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody entered a sixth week despite a deadly state crackdown. The protests have posed one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical […]
Protests rage in Iran’s south-east, amid crackdown call
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Protests broke in restive southeastern Iran on Friday, with demonstrators attacking banks, state media reported, as a senior cleric called for tough measures against demonstrators across the country. The Islamic Republic has been gripped by five weeks of demonstrations that erupted after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa […]