Won't sing a song praising the supreme leader -- well that's a beating to death. This place is starting to sound like Putin's Russia. Iranian schoolgirl ‘beaten to death for refusing to sing’ pro-regime anthem Fresh protests ignited around Iran by 16-year-old Asra Panahi’s death after schoolgirls assaulted in raid on high school in Ardabil https://www.theguardian.com/global-...-death-for-refusing-to-sing-pro-regime-anthem
LOL -- and what legitimate court will hear the case. Good luck collecting. Iran says it will sue US, alleging ‘direct involvement’ in protests https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/23/middleeast/iran-protests-lawsuit-against-us-intl-hnk/index.html Iran said Saturday it would take legal action against the United States, accusing it of “direct involvement” in the protests sweeping the country. Tehran also warned the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia would “not be ignored by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary system” for their role in hosting and supporting TV networks such as BBC Persian and Iran International – which it claimed had urged protesters “to destroy public and private properties.” Anti-government protests have gripped Iran since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being pulled off the streets of Tehran by morality police and taken to a “re-education center” for lessons in modesty. Strikes and protests have become a common sight in cities and towns across the country and in the capital chants of “death to the dictator” – in reference to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – often ring out at night from the rooftops. US President Joe Biden has thrown his support behind the demonstrators, promising costs “on perpetrators of violence against peaceful protesters” and saying the US stands with the “brave women of Iran who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.” The US has also announced sanctions on Iran’s morality police “for abuse and violence against Iranian women and the violation of the rights of peaceful Iranian protesters” and is working to making it easier for Iranians to access the internet. This is not the first time Iran has accused the US of meddling in anti-government protests – it made similar claims in 2018. The state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday that the Justice Department “has been tasked to file a lawsuit in order to investigate the damages and meddling inflicted by the US’s direct involvement in the unrest.” It also reported the claims against the BBC and Iran International, made by the deputy head of the Iranian Judiciary and secretary of the country’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi. The report did not make clear what court would hear such a case. Strikes and solidarity protests Meanwhile protests are continuing both within Iran and in solidarity movements across the world, with large demonstrations in both Berlin and Tokyo on Saturday. Within Iran, business owners and factory workers from the Kurdistan region went on strike and students from universities across the country joined in on the demonstrations. Video shared with CNN by pro-reform activist outlet IranWire, show Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdish region, eerily quiet at the beginning of the work week as stores remain shuttered. The Norway-based Iranian rights group Hengaw said shopkeepers were also on strike in Bukan, Sanandaj and Marivan, though CNN can’t independently verify these reports. On Saturday, videos of protests against the Iranian regime from IranWire showed a crowd at Tehran’s Shahid Behasti University chanting “Freedom, freedom, death to the dictator, death to Khamenei.” Students at Tabriz University in East Azerbaijan province also took to the streets chanting in unison that regime change was on the horizon, according to IranWire, and at Yazd University in Yazd province, students sang a century-old pre-revolutionary anthem. An eyewitness told CNN that young girls from local schools who joined in the protests calling for “freedom” and “death to the dictator” were rounded up by police moments later and loaded into black vans. Outside Iran, video published by Radio Free Liberty showed protesters on a boardwalk in Sydney, Australia, chanting “freedom” on Saturday. Germany’s state broadcaster RBB reported solidarity protests with close to 80,000 people in Berlin.
Earlier -- it appeared that this Iranian unrest may fizzle out as the security forces arrested more protesters and brutally attacked anyone protesting. With a side narrative of Kurdish unrest being targeted. Instead the protests have grown and are spreading well beyond small groups of students while they pick up momentum. This is not a "Kurdish problem" -- but a mainstream problem in Iran. The younger generation is effectively revolting. Students defy Iran protest ultimatum, unrest enters more dangerous phase https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...owerful-guards-with-more-protests-2022-10-30/ Protests show no sign of easing amid fierce state warnings University students clash with security forces Journalists demand release of their jailed colleagues Rights groups report arrests of activists, students Weeks of protest in Iran entered a more violent phase on Sunday as students defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards and were met with tear gas, beatings and gunfire from riot police and militia, social media videos showed. The confrontations at dozens of universities prompted a threat of a tougher crackdown in the seventh week of demonstrations since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after she was arrested by the morality police for attire deemed inappropriate. Iranians from all walks of life have been protesting since Amini's death. What began as outrage over Amini's death on Sept. 16 has evolved into one of the toughest challenges to clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution, with some protesters calling for the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards told protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, the harshest warning yet by Iranian authorities. Nevertheless, videos on social media, unverifiable by Reuters, showed confrontations between students and riot police and Basij forces on Sunday at universities all over Iran. One video showed a member of Basij forces firing a gun at close range at students protesting at a branch of Azad University in Tehran. Gunshots were also heard in a video shared by rights group HENGAW from protests at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj. Videos from universities in some other cities also showed Basij forces opening fire at students. Across the country, security forces tried to block students inside university buildings, firing tear gas and beating protesters with sticks. The students, who appeared to be unarmed, pushed back, with some chanting "dishonoured Basij get lost" and "Death to Khamenei". HISTORY OF CRACKDOWNS Social media reported arrests of at least a dozen doctors, journalists and artists since Saturday. The activist HRANA news agency said 283 protesters had been killed in the unrest as of Saturday including 44 minors. Some 34 members of the security forces were also killed. More than 14,000 people have been arrested, including 253 students, in protests in 132 cities and towns, and 122 universities, it said. The Guards and its affiliated Basij force have crushed dissent in the past. They said on Sunday, "seditionists" were insulting them at universities and in the streets, and warned they may use more force if the anti-government unrest continued. "So far, Basijis have shown restraint and they have been patient," the head of the Revolutionary Guards in the Khorasan Junubi province, Brigadier General Mohammadreza Mahdavi, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. "But it will get out of our control if the situation continues." JOURNALISTS APPEAL More than 300 Iranian journalists demanded the release of two colleagues jailed for their coverage of Amini in a statement published by the Iranian Etemad and other newspapers on Sunday. Niloofar Hamedi took a photo of Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma. The image, which Hamedi posted on Twitter, was the first signal to the world that all was not well with Amini, who had been detained three days earlier by Iran's morality police for what they deemed inappropriate dress. Elaheh Mohammadi covered Amini's funeral in her Kurdish hometown Saqez, where the protests began. A joint statement released by Iran’s intelligence ministry and the intelligence organisation of the Revolutionary Guards on Friday had accused Hamedi and Mohammadi of being CIA foreign agents. The arrests match an official narrative that Iran's arch-enemy the United States, Israel and other Western powers and their local agents are behind the unrest and are determined to destabilise the country. At least 40 journalists have been detained in the past six weeks, according to rights groups, and the number is growing. Students and women have played a prominent role in the unrest, burning their veils as crowds call for the fall of the Islamic Republic, which came to power in 1979. An official said on Sunday the establishment had no plan to retreat from compulsory veiling but should be "wise" about enforcement. "Removing the veil is against our law and this headquarters will not retreat from its position," Ali Khanmohammadi, the spokesman of Iran’s headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice told the Khabaronline website. "However, our actions should be wise to avoid giving enemies a pretext to use it against us." The apparent hint at compromise is unlikely to appease the protesters, most of whose demands have moved beyond dress code changes to calls for an end to clerical rule. In a further apparent bid to defuse the situation, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said people were right to call for change and their demands would be met if they distanced themselves from the "criminals" taking to the streets. "We consider the protests to be not only correct and the cause of progress, but we also believe that these social movements will change policies and decisions, provided that they are separated from violent people, criminals and separatists," he said, using terms officials typically use for the protesters.
The unrest in Iran continues and is getting worse. The regime is attempting to impose a more harsh response -- promising to put over 1000 arrested protesters on public trial and execute many of them. As outlined in multiple articles the death sentences are being handed out after just one hearing and the accused does not have access to a lawyer. In a sign of the justice being handed out, Mohammad Ghobadlo, a protester who was arrested on the charge of “corruption on earth” after participating in an anti-government rally, was sentenced to death after just one hearing, his mother said on Monday. “My son is only 22 years old and he is also ill. They deprived him of having a lawyer and do not allow lawyers to enter the court,” Ghobadlo’s mother said in a clip published online. “They interrogated him without having access to a lawyer, and sentenced him to death after only one hearing. Is this Islamic justice? In which court of law do they sentence people to death after just one hearing? They are going to execute him soon. I ask people to help,” she added in the video. In the streets the killings by security forces continue. Iranian teen girl beaten to death by police for tearing Khomeini's photo - report Protests continued across Iran on Monday as Iranian forces continued their crackdown on protesters. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-721095 "The protests in Iran pose the most serious challenge to the regime's authority since the 1979 revolution and its aftermatch." Facing a wave of public anger, Iran’s regime could be in a fight for its long-term survival, experts say Analysis: The protests in Iran transcend class or geography, and show no sign of abating. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...me-fight-long-term-survival-experts-rcna54535
The death sentences continue to be handed out to protestors in Iran despite the article citing this as the first one. The number now is likely in the hundreds. Yet the protests continue. Iran court sentences protester to death https://www.axios.com/2022/11/14/iran-protests-court-protester-death-sentence 16 UN-appointed independent human rights experts issued a joint statement Friday urging Iranian authorities to "stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests."
Iranians seen setting fire to ancestral home of Islamic Republic founder Khomeini In video footage, jubilant protesters march alongside the building as it’s engulfed by flames; hundreds protest against regime at boy’s funeral https://www.timesofisrael.com/irani...al-home-of-islamic-republic-founder-khomeini/
The carnage keeps growing in the brutal oppression by the Iranian regime. At least 58 Iranian children reportedly killed since anti-regime protests began Rights groups say children as young as eight are among the victims of the crackdown by security services since the death of Mahsa Amini https://www.theguardian.com/global-...-protests-children-killed-reports-mahsa-amini
Isn't that the punishment you begged authorities to dish out to Antifa for setting buildings on fire?