Spring of freedom

Security forces are trying to arrest a teacher From the morning of Thursday, December 27, based on a previous call,  teachers, and educators of Isfahan gathered in front of the city's Education Department. This is while intelligence agents and state security forces threatened teachers in various ways not to participate in the demonstrations, otherwise, they would face consequences. Since the morning, police and intelligence forces have been trying to prevent the formation of this protest rally by deployment in the streets around the Education Department. Subsequently, teachers, most of whom brave women, went to Darvazeh Dowlat street, in front of the municipality and gathered at Bagh Behesht Park. The suppressive forces attacked them with batons and pepper sprayed them. Demonstrations and clashes took place on the streets of Darvazeh Dowlat, Hasht Behesht and Bagh Behesht Park, and dozens of protesters were arrested. The mercenaries attacked a woman filming the events to...

The woman who removed her headscarf is jailed hand harassed by Iranian state security forces  At the close of 2017, an Iranian woman removing her hijab and waving it like a flag became a symbol of the protests sweeping through Iran. That woman's current whereabouts are unknown, but locals claim she was arrested by police.  The woman in the video was violating Iran's so-called modesty laws, which mandate that women wear Islamic head coverings at all times.  At the time, some media reports claimed these laws were no longer enforced in cities like Tehran during the protests. However, the laws and accompanying punishments were only loosened slightly. Those wearing loose-fitting hijabs and too much makeup were assigned to mandatory Islamic culture classes, rather than the usual punishment of jail time. The illegal punishment they have had to bear has always been much more than what is foreseen in the law.   Anti-government protests raged in Iran as the n...