Despite severe security risks and an ongoing war, retirees, nurses, workers, teachers and students have held sit-ins and protests across Iran since this summer, most often over economic hardship. With prices going up every few hours, salaries and pensions going unpaid for months, and unemployment increasing, our Observers say life is becoming “impossible”.
Every week, the regime hands down severe sentences to arrested protesters, including death sentences. It also relentlessly arrests journalists, artists, activists and athletes for the slightest public expression of anti-regime views or for failing to observe restrictive Sharia rules on social media.
