The Latest Breaking News from Mahsa Amini

Iranian Female Political Prisoners Urge End to Protester Executions

A group of female political prisoners incarcerated in Iran’s notorious Evin prison have published a letter expressing their condemnation of the regime issuing and implementing death sentences against protesters. So far, Iranian authorities have executed four demonstrators. “We, the political and ideological prisoners in the women's ward of Evin Prison,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 23, 2023

Iran’s Raisi Pledges to Tackle Inflation

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday set the tackling of galloping inflation and currency devaluation as priorities for the 2023-2024 budget presented to parliament. The pledge came as the rial touched a new low. Addressing MPs, Raisi tried to reassure Iranians over the economy which faces a serious crisis due…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 22, 2023

Iranians Protest in Zahedan Despite Tight Security

Thousands took to the streets in Zahedan Friday despite the checkpoints and roadblocks established by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces and police officers. Videos from the march showed protesters carrying banners and chanting against the Iranian government. The military forces designated checkpoints in different areas of Zahedan and…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 21, 2023

EU lawmakers want Iran's Guards branded terrorist group

The European Parliament called on Wednesday for the EU to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, blaming the powerful force for the repression of protesters and the supply of drones to Russia.

Reuters · Jan 18, 2023

Faces of condemned as Iranian freedom protesters face execution or death under regime

Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Bambos Charalambous gave just a snapshot of the estimated 18,000 arrested since the Mahsa Amini protests began last September

Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023

Alarm grows over Aussie's death sentence

Sydney man Majid Kazemi has been sentenced to death after the Iranian regime accused him of being involved in the deaths of government militia members.

AAP · Jan 16, 2023

Thousands march to EU parliament in Strasbourg in support of Iran protesters

Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran.

France 24 · Jan 16, 2023

France: March, Eiffel Tower Display to Back Iran’s Activists

Some 5,000 people marched Monday to the EU parliament in the French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran's anti-government protesters as Paris prepared an Eiffel Tower tribute to Mahsa Amini, whose death in September prompted the demonstrations. The Strasbourg march was organized by Iranians in Europe on the 44th…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 16, 2023

France: March, Eiffel Tower display to back Iran's activists

Thousands of Iranians in Europe have marched to the EU Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters as Paris prepared an Eiffel Tower tribute to Mahsa Amini, whose death prompted the demonstrations

The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2023

Anthropologist Chowra Makaremi says Iran protests 'fuelled by anger'

When Chowra Makaremi came to France from Iran as a child, she had to leave her mother behind. Several years later, in 1988, her jailed mother was one of thousands killed in mass executions. Now an anthropologist, Marakemi explains that the Iranian regime has long used state violence for control,…

France 24 · Jan 16, 2023