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On Saturday, February 16, the state-run media IRNA
officially announced the clashes between a crowd of people with morality police
which took place on Friday, February 15, following the attempt to arrest the
two young girls in Narmak, Tehran-Iran.
After Paris and Warsaw, the Iranian supporters of the
Iranian resistance rallied in Munich-Germany on Sunday Feb.
17, outside the Munich Security Conference, protesting the presence of Iranian
regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. They condemned Tehran’s
terrorist measures in Europe and the United States and called for the blacklisting
of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Ministry of
Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and also for the MOIS Quds force operative to
be expelled from Europe and the US.
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On Saturday, February 16, the state-run media IRNA
officially announced the clashes between a crowd of people with morality police
which took place on Friday, February 15, following the attempt to arrest the
two young girls in Narmak, Tehran-Iran.
According to witnesses, the morality police agents
confronted the girls for ‘mal-veiling’ and tried to arrest them. However, a
group of people intervened to protect the girls and managed to save them from
the morality.
In fear of the spread of a public gathering, the
morality police fired bullets into the air in order to disperse the crowd.
Heavy clashes followed the shots and the crowd broke the door of the vehicle
belonging to the morality police, saving the two young girls. The morality
police were forced to retreat and leave the scene.
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Sahar Kazemi, a Kurdish civil activist, was sentenced to
five years in prison by the Sanandaj Court
in Iran. It’s said that Sahar was sentenced because of her activities in
the field of civil and environmental issues. Simultaneous with the five years
of imprisonment sentence for Sahar, her husband, Madeh Fat’hi, was released
after three months in prison with a bail bond of 100 million tomans. 13
environmental activists have been held in detention for months. Houman Jowkar, general manager of the Asiatic Cheetah
Conservation Project in Iran; Taher Ghadirian, young scientist and Human
Resource Coordinator at UNESCO; Sam Rajabi, environmental expert; Amirhossein
Khaleghi and Niloufar Bayani, wildlife experts; Sepideh Kashani, Houman
Jowkar’s wife and former activities adviser to the United Nations Environment
Programme; and Morad Tahbaz all work with the Persian Wildlife Heritage
Foundation.
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Iranian teachers and educators held their 4th
nationwide protests this year, on Thursday, February 14. There protests were
held in cities such as Mashhad, Kermanshah, Urmia, Ardabil, Khorramabad,
Sanandaj and Marivan to name a few. Working and retired female teachers
actively participated in this fourth round of nationwide protests, as they
previously did. Iranian teachers and educators demanded payment of their
salaries, freedom of imprisoned teachers and free education for all children,
among others. Iranian teachers and educators have held at least 280 protests
over the past year which is at least three times greater than the 88 protests
held throughout the previous year.
