Iran: Large number of women arrested on July 9

NCRI – According to reports from inside Iran by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) Social Headquarters, in the course of the July 9 uprising in Tehran, a large number of young women were arrested. They were taken to undisclosed locations and their fate remains unknown.

Plain-clothes agents beat young women with batons and used pepper sprays, which could cause serious harm to their eyes, during the arrests. The agents then transferred the detainees in vans with license plates.

Separately, underscoring the intensity of July 9 protests, at 23:00 local time, people in Aryashahr chanted, “We are men and women of war, Fight and we will fight back.” People also went to their rooftops immediately after the protests to chant “God is great” and “Death to dictator.”