{"id":252701,"date":"2021-12-08T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=252701"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:36:48","slug":"as-global-awareness-grows-iran-continues-crackdown-on-participants-in-2019-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/as-global-awareness-grows-iran-continues-crackdown-on-participants-in-2019-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"As Global Awareness Grows, Iran Continues Crackdown on Participants in 2019 Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday, the US Department of the Treasury announced new human rights-related sanctions<\/strong><\/a> against a dozen Iranian officials, as well as secondary sanctions targeting any companies or financial institutions that do business with those individuals. The basis for those sanctions included attacks on peaceful protesters and violations of due process related to the 2009 protests and the nationwide uprising that broke out spontaneously in the wake of gasoline price hikes in November 2019<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latter uprising<\/strong><\/a> came less than two years after a similar movement that popularized explicit calls for regime change in well over 100 cities and towns. The 2019 uprising proved to be even larger and to involve a broader range of demographics, and thus inspired a panicked response from regime authorities. Security forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps opened fire on crowds of protesters almost immediately, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/strong><\/a>) later reported that the death toll from that crackdown exceeded 1,500 in a matter of only days.<\/p>\n

This estimate was later confirmed by Reuters<\/strong><\/a>, citing sources from inside the Iranian Interior Ministry. Government officials also confirmed that at least 7,000 people were arrested during and immediately after the uprising. The NCRI estimates that the true arrest figures are roughly twice that, and human rights defenders have variously highlighted the dangers posed to peaceful activists by long-term detention by Iran\u2019s judiciary.<\/p>\n

At the time of that uprising, the judiciary was led by Ebrahim Raisi<\/strong><\/a>, who went on to be selected as the president of the Iranian regime in June 2021. His presidential campaign prompted many protests within the Iranian activist community and throughout the Iranian diaspora, based on leading roles in both the 2019 uprising and the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners<\/strong><\/a> during the summer of 1988.<\/p>\n

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Iran Where Mass Murderers Rule<\/div><\/div>
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