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780 demonstrations, strikes and protests in Iran in November |
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
More than 3,400 protest have been recorded in past 8 months
More than 780 demonstrations, strikes, protests, and clashes took place in the Iranian month ending November 21. The figures indicate a 54-percent rise in comparison to the same period last year, according to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
Some 3,400 such protests have been recorded over the past eight months.
Demonstrations and strikes took place last month in Tehran, Karaj, Saveh (central Iran), Rasht and Mazandaran (northern Iran), Hamedan, Sanandaj, Baneh, Boukan and Khorramabad (western Iran), Mashhad (northeastern Iran), Bushehr, Bandar-Abbas and Shiraz (southern Iran). In many cases they led to clashes with State Security Forces. Two hundred and forty demonstrations were staged by workers demanding their wages which had gone unpaid from three to 50 months. Two hundred demonstrations were staged by students who showed their hatred of the regime by chanting slogans such as, “[We want] freedom, freedom” and “Universities are not military garrisons.”
During the same period, the regime's judiciary hanged 48 people (including 37 public hangings) to create an atmosphere of fear among the population in order to prevent people from taking part in further uprisings and protests.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 8, 2006 |
NCRI Statemnts 
