Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi had the first day of his so-called "trial" today in Tehran without a lawyer of his choice.
He has been charged with "Mohareb" (waging war against God), which could be punishable by death.
#MahsaAmini
#Iran
#مهسا_امینی
#توماج_صالحی
#IranProtests
: Courageous young woman resists arrest by the morality police--who arrested
#MahsaAmini
--in Babol, Iran on Sept. 23.
"You won't touch me... for this head scarf!"
#OpIran
#مهسا_امینی
Musician Shervin Hajipour, whose video about the ongoing protests in
#Iran
has garnered tens of millions of views, has reportedly been arrested.
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
#IranProtests
ongoing since Sept 16, after death of
#MahsaAmini
.
Today students from 12 universities protested outside calling for the release of university students.
This clip of dentistry students in Tabriz, Sept 26.
#MahsaAmini
#OpIran
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Mother of Sattar Beheshti, who was tortured to death in Iran in 2012, removes her hijab after 80 yrs "for our young people."
She has never given up her quest for justice, and now is standing for all of Iran’s sons & daughters.
#Mahsa_Amini
.
#مهسا_امینی
We condemn in the strongest terms the unlawful execution of
#NavidAfkari
, which demonstrates the Iranian judiciary’s complete disregard for law, justice and international standards of due process. #نوید_افکاری
#IranProtests
: Dental school students at Isfahan University strike for a second day against dozens of fellow university students being arbitrarily arrested in recent days.
#MahsaAmini
#OpIran
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
“Take me and kill me! They killed my child unjustly! My child's blood will not be trampled!"
Mother of 20-year-old university student Omid Moayedi, who was killed 40 days ago in Shiraz, Fars province at a protest.
#Masha_Amini
#Iran
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
Excitement and joy as women enter
#Iran
’s Azadi Stadium to watch a football match. They’ve been banned from purchasing tickets for the past 38 years and have been facing arrest and prosecution for decades to win back this right.
#FIFA
Women waving their compulsory headscarves last night on a popular street in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.
#IranRevolution
#MahsaAmini
#OpIran
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Seyed Mohammad Hosseini was hanged this past weekend after being denied the right to defend himself by the Islamic Revolutionary Court: .
Flowers were laid at a memorial for him at Beheshte Ali Cemetery in Eshtehard, Alborz province.
#StopExecutionsinIran
🚨In Iran, a rapper faces death for daring to speak out.
Toomaj Salehi's crime? Exposing oppressive state policies through his music. 🎤
We cannot stay silent. We must demand his release and defend free speech and dissent. 🗣️✊
Join the fight for justice. Share his story, and…
Mahsa Amini, 22, is in a coma in Iran's Kasra Hospital after being arrested by "anti-vice" police for her alleged improper hijab and being taken to Vozara detention center.
The police have confirmed that Amini is “under treatment” without giving details.
#مهسا_امینی
Anahita Hashemipour, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences in Tehran, arrested by state security agents on Oct. 4, has been transferred from Evin Prison to Gharchak Prison.
#Iran
#مهسا_امینی
#آناهیتا_هاشمیپور
#Iran
: Protests reportedly ongoing in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, where Iranian state forces have waged a lethal crackdown: .
#IranProtests
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#سنندج
“Woman, Life, Freedom!"
Classes were cancelled amid a protest by students at
#Iran
's Isfahan University of Technology’s Department of Civil Engineering.
Some professors also joined the protest.
#OpIran
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Hossein Ronaghi, a dissident & former political prisoner who was arbitrarily detained in Iran on Sept. 22, is on hunger strike and ill, according to his brother.
Ronaghi's parents were finally allowed to visit him after more than 1 month.
#Mahsa_Amini
#مهسا_امینی
#حسین_رونقی
*Must-See on
#Iran
* (5 of 6)
Girls at one high school in
#Iran
dancing without their forced-hijab, chanting "This is the year of blood... [inaudible] will be toppled!"
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Student journalist Nazila Maroufian has been arbitrarily detained in Evin Prison since October 30, after she published an interview with
#Mahsa_Amini
’s father.
#Iran
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#نازیلا_معروفیان
After a group of girls were detained in Tehran for dancing in public on International Women's Day, women and girls in different Iranian cities have continued to film themselves also dancing in public.
The Islamic Republic has deemed it illegal for women and girls to dance in…
#IranProtests
occurred at multiple sites today in Tehran, according to videos sent to the Center for Human Rights in Iran. Here tear gas is shot directly into a crowd outside Shademaan Metro Station in Tehran at approx 7:30pm Tehran time.
Activist Hossein Ronaghi's "life is in danger" in
#Iran
's Evin Prison, said his father in an interview w/ Manoto.
He only has one kidney that has 40% failed and is being denied proper treatment outside the prison.
Ronaghi is detained for engaging in free speech.
#حسين_رونقي
A Persian hashtag on
#Iran
is trending worldwide right now, #اعدام_نکنید,
#stopexecutionsinIran
, addresses a rising trend in the country, of people being sentenced to death for practicing freedom of speech and expression.
Case in point here.
Today at
#Iran
’s Semnan University:
“Evin [Prison] has become a university, Tehran has become a detention center!”
Here’s why: .
#MahsaAmini
#IranProtests
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
The Center for Human Rights in Iran fiercely denounces the outrageous death sentence imposed on rapper Toomaj Salehi by the Islamic Revolutionary Court.
This verdict not only underscores glaring legal flaws but also constitutes a flagrant mockery of the judicial system, once…
Alma Abdollahzadeh, a student majoring in physical training at Azad University in Tehran, has been in detention for 35 days.
She is detained in Gharchak Prison, notorious for its inhumane living conditions: .
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#IranProtests
: People chanting "We don’t want an oppressive government! We don’t want mercenary police!" earlier today at Tehran University on December 30.
Today marks the 5th anniversary of Vida Movahed's courageous public stand against the compulsory hijab in Iran.
It triggered the “Girls of Revolution Street” campaign as Iranian women took off their headscarves in public and waved them on sticks.
#Masha_Amini
#مهسا_امینی
*Disturbing Video*
State security forces beat women protesters, including with a baton blow to the face.
In the beginning: "Do you think the street is yours?.. You are fighting me on my soil."
Bojnord, North Khorasan Province
#MahsaAmini
#OpIran
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Detained journalist Ziba Omidifar has been transferred in a semi-conscious state to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province after being tortured in the IRGC detention center following her arrest on December 8, reported Shirin Ebadi.
#زیبا_امیدیفر
Maryam Balalpour, a graphic design student at Beheshti University in Tehran, has been in solitary confinement since her arrest by Islamic Republic agents on Dec 12.
#Iran
#IranProtests
#مهسا_امینی
#مریم_بلالپور
The young man in this video,
#MohammadMehdiKarami
, was hanged today in Iran.
He is among four who’ve already been lynched in connection with
#IranProtests
and more than a dozen at imminent risk.
#محمدمهدی_کرمی
#سیدمحمد_حسینی
#StopExecutionsinIran
Despite a heavy security presence + days of violent repression & internet blackouts,
#IranProtests
remain ongoing in several cities in Iran including Shiraz + Tehran.
On a street in Tehran tonight, protesters chanted "Death to the dictator!"
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
A banner over Hemmat Highway in Tehran used to say:
“The earth bears gold…” Until a protester added to it:
“... And clerics steal the gold.”
#Mahsa_Amini
#مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی
Students throwing water at Basiji paramilitary and other state security agents. Alzahra University for women, Tehran.
#Mahsa_Amini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی
Iranian authorities detained young women who filmed themselves dancing in public on International Women's Day.
In response, more young women have filmed themselves dancing in public around Iran.
#IranRevolution
#زن_زندگی_آزادی
#مهسا_امینی
“Woman! Life! Freedom!”
High school girl continuing
#IranProtests
by standing on top of a car, waving her forced-hijab (in the Mehrshahr district of Karaj today).
She can be arrested for this.
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution2022
#IslamicRepublic
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Iranian authorities detained young women who filmed themselves dancing in public on International Women's Day.
In response, more young women have filmed themselves dancing in public around Iran.
💃👯♂️💃
#IranRevolution
Persian-speakers have been remembering Khodanoor Lajaei, 27, an undocumented resident of Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, who was killed amid a massacre of protesters by state security forces that took at least 82 lives in September. #خدانور_لجعی
Dissident hip hop artist Toomaj Salehi remains arbitrarily jailed in
#Iran
and is facing charges that could carry the death penalty!
His only “crime” was speaking up for freedom in the Islamic Republic.
#FreeToomaj
#MahsaAmini
Aida Pourtaghi, 21, has been sentenced to 60 lashes and 9 years in prison by a "Revolutionary Court" in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province in connection with
#IranProtests
, reports Baluchestan Watch.
#Masha_Amini
#Iran
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#آیدا_پورتقی
Niloofar Najafpour has not been heard from since her arrest in connection with protests in Iran on November 27.
She is a student in environmental studies at Kurdistan University in Sanandaj.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#نيلوفر_نجفپور
Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi, the voice of Iran's freedom movement, has spent 100+ days in solitary confinement.
His only "crime" was calling for "Women, Life, Freedom" in
#Iran
.
Be his voice. Call on Islamic Republic authorities to
#FreeToomaj
@OfficialToomaj
#توماج_صالحی
THREAD: Donya Farhadi disappeared in early December after she attended a protest.
Her body was found with a bullet in it, reports the University Students Trade Unions Council.
She was a student at Azad University in Ahvaz.
Please investigate
@UNHumanRights
#دنیا_فرهادی
150 days of solitary confinement in Iran for the famous dissident rapper,
#ToomajSalehi
His "crime"? Rapping about Iranian authorities repressive policies.
Be his voice.
Call on Islamic Republic authorities to
#FreeToomaj
@OfficialToomaj
#توماج_صالحی
Please speak out…
*Must-See on
#Iran
* (3 of 6)
In this clip, girl high school students--in a classroom w/out their forced-hijab--sing what has come to be the anthem of
#IranProtests
: "Baraye..." ("For...") by Shervin Hajipour (who has been arrested).
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Beheshti University graduate Sepideh Ahmadkhani has reportedly been sentenced to 74 lashes and six years in prison in connection with
#IranProtests
.
She has also been ordered to write an 80-page thesis on “society’s need for security and patriotism.” #سپیده_احمدخانی
#Iran
#IranProtests
: Protesters destroy statute of Ayatollah Khomeini—the founder of the Islamic Republic—in Neishabour, northeast Iran.
Video posted online on Oct 14.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
In an audio file, Majid Kazemi, among at least 20 sentenced to death in Iran without due process, said he was forced to falsely confess under "torture."
"...They kept beating me and saying these weapons were mine, and I said yes, they’re mine."
#مجید_کاظمی
Among demands at
#IranProtests2022
are calls for the release of political prisoners.
Sepideh Qoliyan is one of them: .
In a letter from prison, she expressed solidarity with protesters.
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Mohammad Mehdi Karami was executed in Iran this weekend.
His family’s pain is palpable.
He was denied due process by the kangaroo court that condemned him after being arrested at
#IranProtests
.
He was 22.
#StopExecutionsinIran
In the main lobby of Tehran University College of Social Sciences, on Nov. 12, singing “The Girl from the Land of the Sun” a new protest anthem.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
It has been 47 days since this young woman, Melika Semsarian, has been detained without access to counsel in the city of Babol,
#Iran
.
Her "crime"?
Peacefully refusing to wear a headscarf.
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی
A teacher in
#Iran
’s Qeshm Island risks arrest by explaining to his class that while some students around the country are not able to attend school--because they’ve been arrested--no classes will be held until they are freed.
#IranOp
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Undeterred by the threat of lethal state violence, two females in Tehran stood on a platform in peaceful defiance agains the state's forced-hijab law as onlookers cheered + honked on the anniversary of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in
#Iran
.
#Mahsa_Amini
#مهسا_امینی
Majid Kazemi’s mother grieving over his grave. She had begged the authorities to spare his 30-year-old life.
Majid was executed in Isfahan today, May 19 after a sham trial and being tortured to force him to make self-incriminating statements on video that was then blasted on…
"If it weren’t for the media coverage and international pressure in the early days and weeks, Toomaj might not be alive today..."
Toomaj Salehi is facing possible execution in Iran.
Be his voice.
Use your platform to call on Iranian authorities to
#FreeToomaj
SHARE OUR…
Toomaj Salehi.
Say his name.
He's facing possible execution and is being denied proper medical treatment in Iran where he's jailed for joining anti-state protests.
He needs our help.
Call for his freedom.
#FreeToomaj
#ToomajSalehi
#توماج_صالحی
#Iran
's University Students Trade Unions Council has listed 204 universities + other higher education institutions that have joined a strike to demand the release of dozens of students arrested in recent days.
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Actress Shiva Shabani has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for
#IranProtests
on sham charges including “propaganda against the state.”
The Islamic Republic is sending innocent people to jail to crush dissent in art and film: .
#Mahsa_Amini
#شیوا_شعبانی
In Isfahan today, a rallying cry heard all around Iran amid protests these past two weeks: "Woman, Life, Freedom!"
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Despite violent repression of protests + mass arrests, university students in
#Iran
continued protests today.
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” dancing with flares in the Iranian flag’s tricolors, Najafabad, central Iran.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
To the cheers of bystanders, women dance in the streets of Ahvaz, Iran, waving their compulsory headscarves in the air.
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
#IranProtests
: Mother of slain street protester, Nika Shakarami, refuses to be silent about the killing of her daughter:
"Today was your birthday, my dear!"
"Today I say, congratulations on your martyrdom!”
#IslamicRepublic
#Iran
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
A group of women and girls in Iran filmed a video of themselves dancing in solidarity with “Sadegh Booghi,” a retiree whose Instagram page with 128,000 followers was shut down by authorities after a video clip of him dancing on the street in the northern city of Rasht went viral.…
“Roar and shout against this dictatorship!”
Chant by Shiraz University students on Sept. 28 in
#Iran
after state security forces arrested some protesting students.
#OpIran
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
Sepideh Rashnoo, arrested in July for peacefully opposing the Islamic Republic's forced-hijab law, has been issued a 5-year suspended prison sentence—meaning she could be jailed at any time.
Here's how she responded.
#Masha_Amini
#Iran
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#سپیده_رشنو
"They tell me to be quiet, but I won't be quiet!"
Siavash Mahmoudi, 16, is among more than 63 children killed by state security forces since
#IranRevolution
began in September.
His mother has refused to be silenced in her quest for justice.
#Iran
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی