'Silence is violence' is today's powerful message which could be heard echoing around Gateshead and Newcastle's shared Quayside, as hundreds turned out for protests against the current Iranian regime.
Widespread protests have been going on for months now around the world, after Mahsa Amini was brutally beaten into a coma by Iran's morality police for not wearing a hijab correctly, September.
The 22-year-old was reportedly abducted from the street for not complying with strict Iranian laws surrounding the headwear, before being beaten at a police station leaving her brain dead.
