> Large numbers of people gathered in Berlin on Saturday to support the protests against the Iranian regime that have been going on for weeks. They came together from large parts of Europe and protested around the Victory Column, as reporters told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. For hours, crowds of people from all directions streamed to the demonstration. The police had initially given a number of participants of 6000, later of 37,000 people. With the help of a police helicopter, the number of 80,000 people was later determined.
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> During the night and early morning, many Iranians had already travelled from dozens of cities to support the system-critical protests in Iran. For five weeks, the protests against the Islamic Republic and its authoritarian course of government have not ceased.
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> The demonstration was organised by the “Woman* Life Freedom Collective”, which wants to stand up against oppression and discrimination in Iran. Numerous organisations supported the call. The participants wanted to march from the Großer Stern in Berlin through the Berlin government district. The slogan of the protests “Woman, Life, Freedom” was also prominently shouted. (Read the SPIEGEL report on the protest movement in Iran here).
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> The mass protests were triggered by the death of the 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in mid-September. The morality police had arrested her for allegedly not complying with the compulsory rules for wearing a headscarf. The woman died in police custody on 16 September. Since her death, thousands have been demonstrating against the repressive course as well as the Islamic system of rule.
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> The well-known Iranian activist Hamed Esmaeilion had also called for the demonstration. After the death of his wife and daughter, he has been an activist in demonstrations abroad against the Islamic Republic. His family died when a Ukrainian passenger plane was shot down near Tehran in January 2020. He is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at Saturday’s demonstration.
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> Authorities warn Iranian cleric for critical sermon
> Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Sunni cleric Abdel Hamid has been given a stern warning by authorities in the Shiite-majority country. In his Friday sermon, the leading cleric of the city of Zahedan had attributed partial responsibility for the deaths of dozens of people during protests to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme spiritual leader. Khamenei and other representatives of the state must “answer to God” for this, Hamid said in his sermon published on the internet.
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> Contrary to the country’s public figures, he spoke of around 90 people killed in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Zahedan on 30 September.
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> Large numbers of people gathered in Berlin on Saturday to support the protests against the Iranian regime that have been going on for weeks. They came together from large parts of Europe and protested around the Victory Column, as reporters told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. For hours, crowds of people from all directions streamed to the demonstration. The police had initially given a number of participants of 6000, later of 37,000 people. With the help of a police helicopter, the number of 80,000 people was later determined.
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> During the night and early morning, many Iranians had already travelled from dozens of cities to support the system-critical protests in Iran. For five weeks, the protests against the Islamic Republic and its authoritarian course of government have not ceased.
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> The demonstration was organised by the “Woman* Life Freedom Collective”, which wants to stand up against oppression and discrimination in Iran. Numerous organisations supported the call. The participants wanted to march from the Großer Stern in Berlin through the Berlin government district. The slogan of the protests “Woman, Life, Freedom” was also prominently shouted. (Read the SPIEGEL report on the protest movement in Iran here).
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> The mass protests were triggered by the death of the 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in mid-September. The morality police had arrested her for allegedly not complying with the compulsory rules for wearing a headscarf. The woman died in police custody on 16 September. Since her death, thousands have been demonstrating against the repressive course as well as the Islamic system of rule.
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> The well-known Iranian activist Hamed Esmaeilion had also called for the demonstration. After the death of his wife and daughter, he has been an activist in demonstrations abroad against the Islamic Republic. His family died when a Ukrainian passenger plane was shot down near Tehran in January 2020. He is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at Saturday’s demonstration.
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> Authorities warn Iranian cleric for critical sermon
> Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Sunni cleric Abdel Hamid has been given a stern warning by authorities in the Shiite-majority country. In his Friday sermon, the leading cleric of the city of Zahedan had attributed partial responsibility for the deaths of dozens of people during protests to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme spiritual leader. Khamenei and other representatives of the state must “answer to God” for this, Hamid said in his sermon published on the internet.
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> Contrary to the country’s public figures, he spoke of around 90 people killed in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Zahedan on 30 September.
In my country nobody gives a damn.