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Iran Protest and Digital Battle

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 Mahsa Amini's death sparked nationwide protests in Iran last year. Numerous clashes and intimidation and intimidation followed the protest between the youth, the police, the government, even students, and journalists. And even not long after that, there was no internet in the city. The government of Iran tries there level best to suppress the protest, they start arresting protesters, punishing them, they also cut down their freedom of speech. They cut down the freedom of speech online. The Irish government used online devices to track the protesters. People and protesters and their supporters start posting and spreading all their struggles and injustices that were being done by the Irish government on social media platforms. And the government knows that protesters need to communicate to rise the protest more powerfully. So, they peacefully cut down the internet in the region. This time, the internet and social platforms are the best and easiest way to communicate. Article 19 wh...

Iran deploys riot police as mourners gather for Amini's memorial

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 Riot police have been deployed in force in Tehran and other major Iranian cities as Wednesday marks 40 days since a young Iranian woman died in police custody, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to eyewitnesses, small groups of protesters took to the streets in the Iranian capital, mostly at busy roundabouts in central Tehran, chanting anti-government slogans. A demonstration was also held outside the Tehran University campus, where students rallied in large numbers, carrying posters of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini , a student told Anadolu Agency. Traffic was also disrupted due to the heavy police deployment in the area. It has been 40 days since Amini died, after being held by the country's morality force for allegedly wearing "inappropriate dress". Amini, hailing from a small town in western Iran, was at the time visiting her relatives in Tehran when she was detained outside a subway in north Tehran. Her family alleges that she was beaten in police custody, which result...

Iran accuses the US of 'hypocrisy' over anti-hijab protests

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 The Islamic Republic of Iran accused the United States (US) of "hypocrisy" on human rights after US President Joe Biden said he would impose "further costs" over its response to protests that have rocked Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini . The foreign ministry spokesman of Iran, Nasser Kanaani, said, "It would have been better for Joe Biden to think a little about the human rights record of the US before making humanitarian gestures, although hypocrisy does not need to be thought through.” Protests have rocked the Islamic nation since the Kurdish woman, Amini, died on September 16 after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran, the capital of Iran, for allegedly failing to observe the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women. Amini was detained by Iran’s morality police on September 13 for not wearing her Hijab correctly. She was forced into the morality police van and taken to a station on Vezarat Street. After three days i...

Protests show ‘another path’ possible for Iran: Britain's foreign secretary

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 Britain’s top diplomat called on Iran’s leadership to choose “another path” as protests grip the Islamic country after the death of a 22-year-old woman arrested by the morality police. Foreign Secretary of Britain, James Cleverly, said at the United Nations , “The Iranian leadership should notice that the people are unhappy with the direction that they have taken.” He reportedly said, “A different path is possible for the Islamic Republic of Iran. The path that we want Iran to take and that is the path that will see them with a stronger economy and a happy society.” Several non-governmental groups have said that at least eight protesters have been killed in the Islamic nation in several days of unrest after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was killed by the morality police.  According to human rights groups, she died after being arrested by the morality police, who are responsible for enforcing the Islamic republic’s strict dress code, including headscarves, for women. The U.N. ...