Iranian state agencies reported on Tuesday (24) that regime authorities arrested 466 people accused of online activities “aimed at undermining national security” amid the war against Israel and the United States, which is in its 25th day.
“These individuals sought to sow confusion in public opinion, create fear and anxiety in society, promote insecurity and disseminate propaganda in favor of the enemy” via the internet, Iranian police said, according to information from the state news agency IRNA.
According to the British agency Reuters, more than a thousand arrests of people accused of filming “sensitive” locations, sharing anti-Islamic regime content on the internet or “cooperating with the enemy” have already been reported this month.
Accusations of this type are frequently made by the authorities of the Iranian dictatorship, who last week executed three participants in the protests that took place in the country between December and January.
According to the NGO Center for Human Rights in Iran, citing information from the Mizan news agency (linked to the Iranian Judiciary), on Thursday (19), Saleh Mohammadi, aged 19, Saeed Davoudi, aged 21, and Mehdi Ghasemi were publicly hanged in Qom after being convicted of “waging war against God”.
“Dozens of other protesters arrested in January received death sentences from the regime and continue to be at risk of similar executions, including children and teenagers,” the Center for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement.
Around 6,500 protesters had already been killed and almost 54,000 were arrested in the repression of protests at the beginning of the year, according to the NGO HRANA.
