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New Zealand Announces Travel Ban on Iranian Security Forces
New Zealand will impose travel bans on members of the Iranian security forces connected to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini and the violent response to subsequent protests, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta announced.
Amini died in custody in September after being detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly not wearing her hijab correctly.
Her death has sparked months of protests against the conservative religious leadership, which recently announced that the morality police were being disbanded.
Iran Uprising at a Glance – Day 87
Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran
Saturday, December 11, 2022 – 8 PM GMT+1
- Days: 87
- Protests: 280 cities
- Fatalities: 700+ estimated deaths, 580 identified by MEK
- Detentions: 30,000+
As the nationwide uprising entered its 87th day today, students in several universities, including Allameh Tabatabai University’s schools of law and literature, Beheshti University’s school of law, in Tehran, Anoushiravani University in Babol, Isfahan’s University of Technology, and Pardis University, staged protests and chanted anti-regime’s slogans.
December 11 – Tehran, #Iran
Students of Allameh Tabataba'i University are protesting the regime authorities' refusal to allow suspended students back on campus.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/Gvamvz8Xh3— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 11, 2022
At Allameh University, the students chanted, “This is the final message, it is time for an uprising,” “They took away our Mohsen, sent back his body,” “Students will die, but will not accept humiliation,” and “If a student is arrested, the university will be shut down.”
In Damghan University’s dormitory, students protested against Mohsen Shekari’s execution, hanging a rope from a tree, with a banner that read, “the waiting gallows.”
Elsewhere, defiant youth in Tehran and Bushehr targeted the IRGC’s Basij base, the headquarters for the so-called “enjoying good and prohibiting vice,” and a regime’s affiliated seminary with Molotov cocktails, respectively.
December 11 – Tehran, #Iran
Protesters attacked a base of the regime's IRGC paramilitary Basij units using Molotov cocktails.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/iE0RIiYSkS— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 11, 2022
In Fuman, northern Iran, locals attacked two bases of the regime’s IRGC paramilitary Basij force and set them on fire and in Shiraz, southern Iran, defiant youth torched the security cameras.
December 11 – Fuman, northern #Iran
Locals attacked two bases of the regime's IRGC paramilitary Basij force in response to the mullahs' executions and sentencing protesters to death.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/7LscUOwUNB— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 11, 2022
Khorramabad, the capital of the western Province of Lorestan, protesters torched a billboard of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the regime’s recent executions and death sentences.
In Kermanshah, also in the west, the Bazaaris and shop owners continued their strike and closed their shops, and in Sanandaj, workers at different sections of the Petrochemical factory again stopped work.
December 11 – Kermanshah, western #Iran
Locals are on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 87th day of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/amNALpIzrH— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 11, 2022
In Neyshabour, northern Khorasan Province, a statue of the eliminated commander of the terrorist Qods Force, Qassem Soleimani was defaced with red paint.
#IranRevolution2022—December 11, Day 87
Razavi Khorasan, NE #Iran—Footage shows agents trying to remove the red color from the statue of Qassem Soleimani, the ex-#IRGC Quds Force chief, in Neyshabur.
Protesters paint regime symbols in various cities.#KianPirfalak💔#MahsaAmini🌹 pic.twitter.com/ws9z6yhAgj— Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) December 11, 2022
Late Saturday, in Sattarkhan district, where Mohsen Shekari, the first protester executed by the regime, lived, defiant youth were chanting, “Coming out to the streets is the way to go, Seyed Ali is desperate.”
December 11 – Babol, northern #Iran
Students at Noshirvani University protesting and chanting: "Zahedan and Kurdistan are the pride of Iran!"#IranRevolution#اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/CWNqjRb0rx— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 11, 2022
UPDATE: 10:00 AM CET
Qatar ‘Corruption’ Scandal Rocks EU Parliament
A top MEP has been suspended from her party after police launched an investigation into alleged illicit lobbying activities by Qatar, in what threatens to blow up into a major crisis at the heart of the European Union.
Belgian police searched 16 homes and detained at least four people in and around Brussels on Friday as part of an inquiry into what prosecutors called “criminal organization, corruption and money laundering,” as first reported by Belgian media and confirmed to POLITICO by Belgian federal police.
European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili, from the Greek socialist party Pasok, was said to be among those detained. She was suspended from the Socialists and Democrats group in the parliament “with immediate effect, in response to the ongoing investigations,” the EU-level group tweeted late Friday. Kaili was also expelled from the center-left Pasok party in Greece.
UPDATE: 9:30 AM CET
Maryam Rajavi’s Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General on International Human Rights Day
As the world celebrates the 74th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no part of Iran has remained immune from the brutal and systematic violations of human rights by the ruling religious fascism.
The people of Iran have been taking to the streets against the clerical regime for three months. In response, Khamenei’s band of criminals have transferred to the streets all forms of torture and killing they practiced behind the prison walls over the past four decades.
Iran’s Regime Must Be Condemned, Isolated on Int’l Human Rights Day
As the world marks International Human Rights Day, the people of Iran are entering their 86th day of continuous nationwide protests and a massive uprising in the face of a brutal regime that is resorting to horrific atrocities against a nation determined to bring down the mullahs’ entire apparatus. Despite the recent execution of Mohsen Shekari as the first case of recently apprehended protesters being sent to the gallows, and thousands of demonstrators being arrested and tortured in the regime’s prisons, the Iranian people are continuing their anti-regime rallies, gatherings, protests, and demonstrations in all shapes and forms like never before.
On Human Rights Day, a Call to Action To Save Lives in Iran
On this Human Rights Day, here is a call on democratic governments to stand for the democratic values humanity has gained at the price of countless lives. Let us begin the year-long campaign to promote and recognize the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by supporting the most basic human rights of the brave people of Iran, women and men, young and old, Baluch, Kurd, Turk, Arab, and Fars, who are fettered in the clutches of a ruthless regime.
Mohsen Shekari’s Execution Intensifies Iran Revolution – Day 86
On Saturday, December 10, 2022, citizens continued protests, strikes, and anti-regime activities across Iran. Following the execution of detained protester Mohsen Shekari, the people bravely blasted regime officials.
In Qom, college students slammed Mojtaba Zonnuri, the chair of Parliament [Majlis] National Security Commission, for executing Mohsen Shekari. “We will rise up if you execute [protesters],” citizens chanted.
Washington, DC—December 7, 2022: Rally and Photo Exhibition in Front of the US Senate to Support the Iran Revolution
Washington, DC—December 7, 2022:Iranian-American community and supporters of the Iranian Resistance (NCRI and MEK) continued their rally and photo exhibition outside the US Senate, supporting the nationwide Iran protests.
Demonstrations by the Iranian Resistance Supporters, Condemning the Criminal Execution of the Young Protester, Mohsen Shekari—Part 3 – December 8, 2022
December 8, 2022: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held protest demonstrations against the criminal execution of the young protester, Mohsen Shekari, in Stockholm, Hamburg, and Dublin. Mohsen, 23 years old, was arrested for participating in the nationwide Iranian Revolution in Tehran in September 2022.
Also, read Iran News in Brief – December 10, 2022
