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Iran: Families of political prisoners gathering, night protests in Tehran

Feb. 14 Demonstration – No. 1

NCRI – On Sunday, February 13th, over 100 family members of political prisoners staged a protest gathering in the winter cold and snow outside Tehran’s Evin Prison.

Also at around 10 p.m., residents of Tehran’s Valnajak, Pasdaran, Shahrak Qarb, Sattarkhan, Tohid, Jamalzadeh, Baqerkhan, Behboudi districts and also  West Region staged night protests on their rooftops, chanting “Allah Akbar” (God is great) and anti-government slogans. They chanted: “Death to Dictator”, “Death to Khamenei”, “Seid Ali (Khamenei) go next to Bin Ali”, “Fervent Iranians, support us, support us”.

In Tabriz, NW Iran, students of Sahand University interrupted IRGC senior official Saffar Harrandi’s speech by chanting “Death to Dictator” and singing Iranian national songs.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 14, 2011