Iran’s War on Protesters

(New York, N.Y.) – November 15 marked the first anniversary of the beginning of nationwide protests that roiled Iran last year after the regime increased gasoline prices. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest against corruption, mismanagement, and the core tenets of the Islamic Republic. In a lethal crackdown that followed, which was ordered by Iran’s supreme leader, as many as 1,500 Iranians were killed, including at least 23 children. Amnesty International alleges that “widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care” were employed against those caught up in the regime’s dragnet.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) has documented Iranian officials’ playbook of repression over several rounds of unrest since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 in its War on Protesters resource. UANI has also profiled Iran’s agents of repression, specifically Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi and the “Judge of Death” Abolqasem Salavati.

To read the UANI resource, War on Protesters, please click here.

To read the UANI profile, Ebrahim Raisi: Chief Justice of Iran, please click here.

To read the UANI profile, Abolqasem Salavati: The Judge of Death, please click here.

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