Protests continue in Iran despite arrests and crackdown by security forces

The protests continue in different formats in their eighth week in Iran despite arrests and repression by security agents, who are unable to silence young people who want a change in the Islamic system.

The university students of the prestigious University of Sharif they gathered this Tuesday in a room of their university to support their arrested colleagues and condemn the repression experienced during their protests.

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The large number of participants in that protest unanimously sang a hymn called “freedom” that calls for the uprising of the nation in favor of women, life and freedom and promises that the dark night will end and dawn will come, according to images published on the Twitter account of the Islamic association of the aforementioned university.

Likewise, the University of Science and Culture in Tehran was the scene of protests against the Islamic Republic system by students shouting “This year the Revolutionary Guard will have deaths, death to the system”, according to videos shared on Twitter by activists and journalists.

The nightly shouts and slogans continue from the windows of homes against the theocratic system that governs in Iranas well as the slogans that people write on the walls in different cities.

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The intelligence of the Guardians of the Revolution has monitored by drones and has arrested several people in the southern province of Fars for writing slogans on the walls, the local Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday. Tasnimclose to that elite force.

The protests are being so punished that they have caused at least 277 deaths and thousands of detainees, according to the Oslo-based NGO “Iran Human Rights”.

Iran lives protests since the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Aminiafter being arrested three days earlier by the Morality Police for wearing the Islamic veil wrongly, something that is being harshly repressed by the security forces.

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The protests over Amini’s death are led above all by young people and women shouting “Woman, life, freedom!” who shout slogans against the government and burn veils, one of the symbols of the Islamic Republic; something unthinkable not long ago.

Source: Elcomercio

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