Eye on Iran's Protests - November 3, 2022

A protest movement is sweeping Iran in the aftermath of the killing of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the so-called “morality police.” UANI’s Eye on Iran’s Protests is a daily news and events round-up to increase awareness of this movement and the regime’s brutal response. Now is the time to support the Iranian people.

Iranian actor and activist Nazanin Boniadi gave a speech at the U.N. yesterday recognizing the bravery of young Iranian protesters risking arrest, beating, detainment, rape, and death.

U.S. Seeks Removal Of Iran From The U.N. Women’s Rights Agency | New York Times

Yesterday, the U.N. Security Council held an informal meeting, called for by the U.S. and Albania, to discuss Tehran’s ongoing abuses of human rights in Iran, as protests extend to their seventh week. Western diplomats and rights activists are calling for Iran’s removal from a U.N. agency focused on women’s rights and the establishment of a special investigative committee, under the auspices of the U.N., to investigate Tehran’s crimes against peaceful protesters. The U.S. announced an initiative to begin the removal process. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., in attendance at the meeting, called on the global community to give “moral support” to the Iranian people, as they struggle for their freedom from a tyrannical regime. 

Warning: Graphic content. Security forces beat a protester senseless.

Fearless protesters set fire to a police kiosk in Karaj.

Hadis Najafi: Iran Police Fire On Mourners For Female Protester – Witnesses | BBC News 

Security forces opened fire on a crowd gathered to mark the 40th day of mourning for a female protester who was shot and killed by security forces. The security forces unleashed birdshot on the mourners in Karaj, outside Tehran. Witnesses reported that a security officer stabbed a defenseless protester on the ground after he fell from being shot. Still, loud calls for the execution of the supreme leader roared.

Huge crowds populated the streets of Karaj to commemorate the 40th day since Hadis Najafi and Parsa Rezadoost were killed at the hands of security forces.

Protesters hurled rocks at a group of fully-geared riot police.

Flaming objects obstructed an empty street.

A Chilling Crackdown At A Tehran Apartment Complex | New York Times 

Each night, security forces have been raiding a middle-class apartment complex in the west of Tehran, home to 50,000 residents, in an effort to suppress the frequent protest activity there. On one such occasion, they launched what was later referred to as a “military invasion” against an apartment, firing ammunition and tear gas into the windows. These terror tactics reportedly represent a new level of violence, as the raids target families that had not participated in the protests. Many fearless Iranians have told reporters that they have nothing to lose by resisting the security forces; some of them fight back.  

CPJ Renews Calls For Iran To Release All Jailed Journalists Amid-Anti Government Protests | CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists estimated that at least 50 journalists have been arrested and detained since the beginning of the anti-government protests in Iran. That number does not include the dozens of protesters that were already detained before the protests began. As of November 2021, 99 journalists were imprisoned, according to the organization Journalism is not a Crime. To learn more about the regime’s incarceration of journalists, see UANI’s resource titled “Iran’s War on Journalism and Journalists.”

Huge plumes of black smoke billowed from a burning object on the street.