Eye on Iran's Protests - February 8, 2024

The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which was sparked by the murder of Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022, represents one of the most significant domestic threats to regime stability since its founding in 1979. The regime has sought to violently suppress it, claiming over 500 lives in connection with the movement. Many were killed by live fire while attending street protests; countless have been detained and remain imprisoned.

Protesters descended on the streets of Ahvaz on January 28, 2024, the sixth day of the ongoing strike by workers of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group in Ahvaz.

Businesses and shops in several cities in western Iran shut down in a general strike protesting the hanging a day earlier of four men convicted of collaborating with Israel, activists said.

Iranian-American activist and journalist Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic and its oppressive rule, is scheduled to speak at the Munich Security Conference on February 17.

Agents of the Islamic Republic raided the home of a dissident rapper. His Instagram post, which publicized the raid, was subsequently scrubbed from the internet.

Journalists at Fardaye Eghtesad Journal have been forcibly confined to their office by security forces for unknown reasons.

Members of the Kurdish minority in Iran were disproportionately targeted in a spree of arrests throughout January.

Relatives of victims from passenger Flight PS752, which was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran in 2020, gathered in front of the U.N. office in Tehran.

Despite her frail health, Dayeh Sharifeh, a Kurdish septuagenarian, stands as a relentless opponent to the use of the death penalty in Iran.

Agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps tortured Abbas Deris through beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, and threats to execute his family members and subject his wife to sexual violence. Now he's at risk of execution in relation to the November 2019 protests, which resulted in over 1,500 deaths at the hands of security forces.