Eye on Iran’s Protests - February 22, 2024
The Woman, Life, Freedom movement has galvanized supporters worldwide, including human rights activists advocating for strategies to liberate Iran from Islamic government, a tyrannical, violent, corrupt, and mismanaged system, which has claimed over 500 lives in connection to the protests and executed over 800 people throughout 2023.
Iranian people chanted “death to the Islamic Republic” on the Revolution’s 45th anniversary.
Human rights activists are calling on diplomats to walk out of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s annual opening on February 26 when Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian addresses the body.
Mahsa Amini’s uncle was sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison. He was charged with “participation in protests against internal security, dissemination of anti-government propaganda, and insulting the Supreme Leader,” according to Hengaw.
The Islamic Republic banned Valentine’s Day in 2010, viewing it as “non-Islamic.” But Iranian people oppose the regime’s policing of romance.
Iranian liberal and anti-Islamist diaspora stands shoulder to shoulder with the Australian Jewish community against antisemitism.