Blinding As A Weapon (5): Fearful Protester Shot In Eye Continues Fight For Justice

IranWire has collected the testimonies of 21 former women prisoners who describe the women’s ward of Tabriz Central Prison as an overcrowded "doghouse". https://t.co/MdlvllaWWI #truth #Iran #Tabriz #IranProtests2023 #IranianWomen

The draft legislation says that people who hold "a social, political, scientific and cultural position" and use social media to comment on issues that "require" an official response will be sentenced to prison if their posts "disrupt public order." https://t.co/ikQmCtycVO #truth

And the Imam Descends… https://t.co/KTdVYVAkCZ

Our profile of Habibollah Azizi, the first Iranian living abroad who was executed by the Islamic Republic. https://t.co/lYfB1qwFim #truth #Iran #persecurintreligiousminorities

Concerns Grow Over Health Of Two Jailed Iranian Filmmakers https://t.co/JzO1l9GPKA #truth #IranProtests2023

The Cannes film festival award-winner and director of The White Balloon, The Circle and No Bears was arrested in early July 2022, after he protested the detention of two other filmmakers. https://t.co/yqTUkIDCni #truth #JafarPanahi

ICYMI: Australia Slaps Sanctions On Iran Over Protest Crackdown, Drone Supply To Russia https://t.co/8UD0ffIOnm #Iran #truth #Russia #Ukraine

Armita Abbasi, a 20-year-old woman from Karaj, near Tehran, went on trial on January 29 after being tortured and sexually assaulted in detention. She has now become a symbol of resistance of the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic. https://t.co/WxxdDt4kQT #truth #Iran

Mohammad Farzi wrote that his injured eye has 20% eyesight, but the pellet fired by Iran's security forces entered a sinus near his brain and two other pellets remained lodged in his body, including one next to his main artery. https://t.co/cAxBFfOSGY #truth

#Iran’s President Raisi was, before his election, a senior judiciary official for more than 40 years. Members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority were executed under Raisi as a prosecutor. https://t.co/QjO5Xtq4ID #truth #persecutingreligiousminorities #Bahai

Ten Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of other personalities across the world have joined their voices to urge "unstinting" support for Iranians who are protesting against the Islamic Republic in defiance of a bloody crackdown. https://t.co/qavpYaMcu9 #IranSolidarity #Iran

Considering the ingrained level of corruption within the Islamic Republic, this project to sell “surplus” properties potentially worth billions of dollars to the private sector has been met with alarm among the public. https://t.co/Bt01cqdlCk #truth #Iran #Khamenei #IranProtests

An Iranian Pyramid #Iran #iranrevolution #IranProtests https://t.co/SNABpmbMrb

Widespread Arrests, Violence Reported In Iranian Kurdish Town https://t.co/WfeKmgnfm3 #truth

ICYMI: this week the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a 22-year-old convicted protester who suffers from a long-term mental disability. https://t.co/xa0DEYPuJA #truth #Iran #IranProtests

Tehran has not commented on the reported arrests, which come amid mounting tensions between neighboring #Azerbaijan and #Iran. https://t.co/Mg2uBnm0Ns #truth

Iranian Women Children’s Rights Activists Targeted By Protest Crackdown Read more: https://t.co/GcTNKT3pq7 #truth #Iran #IranianLivesMatter https://t.co/lQr3UYYbn2

Tensions are running high in Iran’s mainly Kurdish town of Abdanan, with activists reporting a heavy presence of security forces and widespread arrests. #Iran #IranProtests https://t.co/WfeKmgmHwv #truth

Iranians living in the UK have a duty to hold London-based Ataollah Mohajerani, who wrote a defense of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie, to account. https://t.co/1eMTpBVur3 #truth #SalmanRushdie

Jafar Panahi, one of #Iran’s best-known filmmakers, was released from prison on bail, two days after he announced he was launching a hunger strike to protest his continued detention. https://t.co/yqTUkIDCni #truth #IranProtests

The Iranian House of Cinema has expressed “great concern” about the health condition of two jailed filmmakers - Jafar Panahi and Mozhgan Ilanlou - and urged the Islamic Republic to release them immediately. https://t.co/JzO1l9GPKA #truth #IranProtests #Iran

Maziar Bahari’s 2012 film Forced Confessions pulls the mask off a regime that brutally extracts lies from its citizens – not criminals, but writers, journalists, and scholars. https://t.co/HOcUKIQ3pe #truth #Iran #IranianWomen #mahsaami̇ni̇

Iranian Volunteers Battle To Help Quake Victims Sleeping In Freezing Cold Read more: https://t.co/oltP23SNDV #truth #Iran #IranProtests2023 https://t.co/Tlv6KW213j

“I will remain in this state until perhaps my lifeless body is freed from prison," said one of Iran’s best-known filmmakers, 62-year-old, Jafar Panahi. https://t.co/DUK1lwRnyA #truth #IranRevoIution #Iranian ##Iran