The Islamic Republic has perpetuated 47 years of violence on the people of Iran, both in life and in death. Since the nationwide internet and intranet blackout, which began on January 8th, we have witnessed this brutality at arguably its most extreme.
From the thin trickle of information that has escaped Iran in the absence of internet and independent media, disturbing and heartbreaking images have begun to surface. There are reports of mass killings and of hospitals overflowing with the bodies of protesters. These scenes of tremendous loss demonstrate the lengths the government is willing to take to silence a people’s legitimate right to protest.
In order to suppress ordinary Iranians’ rights to freedom of expression and freedom of movement the government has engaged in extrajudicial killing and arbitrary detention on a large scale. Reports from human rights organisations indicate thousands of peaceful protesters have been killed, including children, and suggest tens of thousands of people have been arrested, although the full scale of what is happening is still unknown
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