Iran massacre of citizens: protesters against the regime call for support for their Belfast demonstration on Sunday
An Iranian woman living in Northern Ireland has called on politicians and members of the public to support their protests at Belfast City Hall against the mass killing of protestors in their native country.
A month ago the Guardian cited an estimated figure of 30,000 people killed in the crackdown so far.
Protest organiser Edeh Zamani, who lives in Belfast, urged politicians and the public to attend their latest protest on Sunday 1 March at 1:30pm.
"It seems like nobody wants to support us," she said, noting that appeals to political parties and other protest groups across the spectrum appeared to have largely fallen on deaf ears.
"Students of top universities in Tehran have started protesting again and they’re being arrested and sentenced to death,” she said.
"Executions are happening - there is a huge number of arrestees in the line to be executed.
"On the first day of Ramadan, with the morning call for prayers, the regime hanged an 18-year-old boy.
"A woman’s body was returned to her family with her uterus cut out and bruises on their legs and bottom."
She is "not sure why" there is so little support for their regular protests, she added.
A month ago, the Guardian reported that testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff revealed a huge state effort to conceal the systematic killing of protesters.
Comparing the number of dead they witnessed with hospital baselines, they estimated it could exceed 30,000, far surpassing official figures.
This was based on the conclusion that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalities”.