Protests in Iran 2011/2012

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The 2011 protests in Iran began with a demonstration on February 14, 2011 .

They can be seen as a sign of the general insecurity that has arisen throughout the Middle East as a result of the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt .

The demonstration requested by the opposition was not approved; nevertheless, around 3:00 p.m. local time, people from different parts of the city moved in silence to the Meydan-e Azadi (German: Freedom Square ). The opposition politicians Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the initiators of the protests, could not take part in the demonstrations because their houses had been cordoned off by the police. Other strategically important places in Tehran were also checked by security forces in the morning. When the state authorities tried to dissolve the event by means of direct coercion , there were physical disputes. Al Jazeera reports two dead demonstrators, at least one of whom is said to have been shot, and several injured. Protests are also said to have taken place in Shiraz , Mashhad , Kermanshah and Isfahan ; in Isfahan also with riots and subsequent arrests.

After the protests, on February 15, 2011 , numerous members of parliament called for the death penalty for opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi , Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammad Chātami .

At the end of February, the Iranian opposition reported that opposition leaders Mousavi and Karroubi, who had been under house arrest since the beginning of the demonstrations, had been abducted. As a result, the opposition announced new protests for March 15, if the two politicians should not be free again by then. The reports of the kidnapping of the two politicians, however, turned out to be incorrect. Nevertheless, a demonstration took place in Tehran on March 1st. There were also protests at the traditional Persian fire festival ( Tschahar Schanbe Suri ), and the operations management in Tehran spoke of 500 arrests.

See also

Web links

Commons : Protests in Iran 2011/2012  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silent Solidarity in Tehran on taz.de (accessed on February 14, 2011, 11:10 pm CET)
  2. ↑ Deaths reported in Iran protests on english.aljazeera.net (accessed on February 15, 2011, 5:40 pm CET)
  3. ↑ Clashes reported protests in Iran on english.aljazeera.net (accessed on February 14, 2011, 11:30 PM CET)
  4. ↑ tagesschau.de - After the protests in Iran - Iran's leadership is startled ( Memento from February 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 15, 2011, 8:15 pm CET)
  5. ↑ The protests are now directed against Khamenei on FAZ.Net (accessed on February 15, 2011, 8:15 pm CET)
  6. ↑ Supposedly top opposition figures in Iran abducted. (No longer available online.) In: stern.de. stern.de , March 1, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 30, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de  
  7. ↑ Iran Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from April 2011
  8. ↑ Continuation of the protests: the fire festival on transparency-for-iran.org (accessed on April 24, 2011, 5:10 pm CEST)