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HUMAN rights campaigners are appealing for pressure on Iran to release thousands of detainees arrested for taking part in mass protests.
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) warns that prisoners’ lives may be in danger, pointing to evidence that one protester, 22-year-old Sina Ghanbari, died on January 6 in “unclear circumstances” while held in the quarantine section of Tehran’s Evin Prison.
In exchanges with two Iranian MPs, the intelligence and security forces have claimed that Mr Ghanbari committed suicide.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
