March 8, 2011
Tehran
In Ekbatan Township in Tehran People held a nightly protest at 2200 chanting Allah O Akbar.
Tehran
Laleh Park the usual gathering place of the Mothers of Uprising was announced as one of the places of gathering for protests of March 8.
The crowd started gathering at the place from 4 pm near the park and a concentrated gathering formed at 7 pm. The protesters chanted ‘death to dictator’.
To confront the protest, regime deployed a full strength suppressive force of anti-riot forces, Bassijies and Especial Units with full equipment. They started beating people.
At some points man to man clashed occurred and the youths resisted.
Tehran
Around Amirabad and Enghelab there were a great number of protesters present. The security forces were too many too but the protesters outnumbered them by 4 times.
They chanted ‘Our Neda (Neda Agha Sultan) is not death/ it is the government that is death’ and ‘death to Khamenei’.
*Neda was killed in Amirabad region on the uprising of 2009.
Arak
At the center of the city on March 8, at 1800 a great crowd gathered and sounds of firecrackers were heard.
Tehran
In Tajrish, north of Tehran, SSF and black outfit forces were stationed. In Vali-e-Asr they beat women and girls severely and the suppressive forces were more concentrated on women.
Around 6 to 7 pm the protesters started chanting ‘death to dictator’ both in Vali-e-Asr St. and Tajrish.
Suppressive cars looking like loaders were stationed to disperse the crowd. Three were arrested in Tajrish.
In Vali-e-Asr around 6 to 8 pm about 100 female protesters got arrested.
Regime has also used 14 to 15 years old Bassijies for suppression this time to rise the number of its suppressive forces for confronting the protesters.
Mashhad University students suspended from university for participating in street protests
Mashhad- March 8, 2011
According to reports, after summoning more than 20 students of the Firdusi University in Mashhad, the Disciplinary Committee announced the sentences of a number of these students on charges of ‘participating in the February 14 protests’. According to the sentences, these students have been suspended for 1 to 2 semesters.
Iran arrests dozens of women in Women’s Day protests in Tehran
Mashhad- March 8, 2011
A large number of women were arrested in various Tehran regions during the International Women’s Day (street protests). They were taken to unknown detention centers.
According to reports, at about 6 pm in Tehran, a large number of women were arrested by security forces between the Eskandari and Navab streets in Tehran.
The women were insulted and treated violently. They were taken to SSF minibuses and vans and were then taken to unknown locations.
At about 5 pm in Roudaki Street in Tehran, a bus full of detained women was taken to an unknown location. In this street, security forces guided protesters to side streets under the excuse that the streets were closed and they arrested them.
In Valiasr Square, a large number of people were arrested in groups. This measure was carried out in many regions in Tehran.
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