Nationwide uprising – Statement 182
NCRI – On Saturday, October 17, close to 200 mothers and relatives of those killed or detained in recent uprisings in Iran joined families of political prisoners in a protest gathering at the Water Square of Tehran’s Laleh Park. The gathering was in protest to the suppression, brutal torture and rape carried out against those detained by the clerical regime in recent months. Protestors demanded unconditional release of all those detained over the course of the uprising in recent months.
Despite restrictions and pressures imposed by the regime’s suppressive forces, the families have staged such protests every Saturday on a regular basis.
A group of women activists and artists also joined the protestors and held a candle vigil and observed a moment of silence in honor of martyrs who struggled for freedom. Later, the protestors held out their fingers as a sign of victory and chanted “God is great.”
The regime’s suppressive forces, particularly plainclothes agents, made efforts to identify the participants and take pictures and videos to instill an atmosphere of fear in a bid to prevent other people from joining the protestors at Laleh Park.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 18, 2009
