Eye on Iran's Protests - April 27, 2023

Since Mahsa Amini’s death sparked nation-wide protests in Iran in September 2022, the Islamic Republic has killed over 500 people, including 71 children. Protests, strikes, and civil disobedience continue in Iran, and the Iranian diaspora continues to organize and pressure policy makers to impose costs on the regime.

This map shows the location of protests in Iran over the past week.

This map shows the location of protest-related arrests in Iran over the past week.

A regime billboard in Gilan Province engulfed in flames.

Massive crowds gathered in Zahedan for the 29th consecutive Friday.

Abadan oil refinery workers went on strike.

Schoolgirls removed their hijabs in public.

The MAHSA Act passed mark-up and was favorably reported to the full House of Representatives.

An anti-regime rally at the London Eye is set to take place on April 29 at 1:00 PM.

A steel worker on strike shouted, "Curse the Islamic Republic!"

Iran’s exiled prince Reza Pahlavi and his wife Yasmine visited Elahe Tavakolian, a PhD student who lost one of her eyes during the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown on protests.

On a hunger strike and demanding that the U.K. designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization, Vahid Beheshti met with Minister of State for Security of the United Kingdom, Tom Tugendhat, and the U.K.’s Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations, Tariq Ahmad.

Four prominent Iranian opposition figures renewed their unity pledge.

Three journalists in Tehran were summoned to present their final defense at the Evin courthouse.

Iranian hip-hop artist and activist, Toomaj Salehi, has endured over 180 days of solitary confinement after being arrested for supporting the Women, Life, Freedom revolution.

Organized chemical attacks on girls’ schools continued.

Government forces ran over four citizens in a police car in Baluchistan and killed one of them.

Students challenged Supreme Leader Khamenei.

According to Human Rights Watch, “Iranian leaders have unleashed their brutal security forces to sexually assault and torture children, and have not spared children from ludicrously unfair trials.”