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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Charges 1,000 Over Unrest in Tehran

A protestor holds a portrait of Iranian Mahsa Amini, who died in custody in September after her arrest by morality police in Tehran, during a rally in support of the demonstrators in Iran, at the Place de la Republique in Paris, on October 29, 2022. (AFP)

Iran's hardline judiciary will hold public trials of about 1,000 people indicted over unrest in Tehran, a semi-official news agency said on Monday, intensifying efforts to crush weeks of protests ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody.

One of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leaders since the 1979 revolution, the almost seven-week-old protests have continued despite a deadly crackdown and increasingly severe warnings, with the Revolutionary Guards bluntly telling demonstrators to stay off the streets.

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