Protest reporting on Iran — demonstrations and strikes, security force crackdowns, internet shutdowns, and the civil resistance movements behind them — collected from independent English-language outlets.
Officials of Iran's Basij militia can be heard on a leaked recording weighing the risk of a new round of protests and the danger that members will be identified online, a rare glimpse of the anxiety inside the force the state sends against demonstrators.
Jafar Pourkabgani, a lawmaker representing the southern Iranian province of Bushehr and a former longtime member of the IRGC and Basij, personally fired at protesters during nationwide demonstrations in January, witnesses told Iran International.
As Iran confronts military pressure abroad and mounting economic strain at home, signs are emerging that the Islamic Republic is increasingly turning its attention to another potential threat: renewed unrest on its own streets.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Palestinians, foreign activists and left-wing Israeli activists held a protest Friday in the occupied West Bank town of Qusra before heading toward three Palestinian homes that have been under siege by the Israeli regime for five consecutive days.
Security forces used cultural venues and medical clinics as firing positions, ammunition stores and sites for holding bodies during Iran's January 2026 protest crackdown in Alborz province, according to material reviewed by Iran International.
Tehran's municipality is tearing up the cobblestones of the capital's historic pedestrian zones and laying asphalt, a change officials call traffic management and that architects and urban sociologists read as something older: the redesign of a city to make protest harder.
‘The right to stay’: Albania’s Italian diaspora sails back to support the Flamingo Revolution Submitted by Dalia Ismail on Wed, 08/12/2026 - 14:30 Organisers in Italy connect the Albanian protest movement to the Palestinian cause as part of a wider struggle against land dispossession A flamingo sculpture with a Palestinian keffiyeh and an Albanian flag during a demonstration in support of the Albanian protest movement in Tirana, 17 June 2026 (Antonio Muco/Palestina e Lire) Off From the Italian port of Brindisi, activists from Italy’s Albanian diaspora and from Global Sumud Flotilla Italy will set sail for Albania on 20 August, travelling across the Adriatic to join the Flamingo Revolution , the protest movement against luxury developments backed by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The mission is organised by the Italian-Albanian collective Mesdhe (“Mediterranean” in Albanian) and the Albanian pro- Palestine collective Palestina e Lire (“Free Palestine” in Albanian), together with the Italian branch of the Global Sumud Flotilla , an international civil society initiative aimed at breaking Israel 's naval blockade of Gaza and delivering humanitarian aid to the enclave. It will link the two Adriatic shores with a three‑boat flotilla at a moment when activists in Albania are challenging the privatisation of protected land and the growing influence of foreign investors over the country.
Five people detained over Iran’s nationwide January protests have been sentenced to death or are at risk of receiving death sentences in the northeastern city of Mashhad and nearby Shandiz, sources familiar with their cases told Iran International.
President Masoud Pezeshkian drew angry reactions from Iranians after rejecting higher estimates of those killed in Iran's January protests and calling those who cite such figures "traitors" in an interview published on Wednesday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected reports that tens of thousands of people were killed in the January protest crackdown, accusing those publishing higher death tolls of misleading the public.
Activists storm Israeli Knesset meeting in protest against additional $36m for settlement expansion The Israeli Knesset Finance Committee held a session on Tuesday to approve the allocation of an additional 113 million shekels ($36m) for Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, raising the year’s budget for settlements to a record 821 million shekels ($273m). Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the allocation would be for the “development of more than 70 archeological and heritage sites” in the occupied West Bank, which would be the first of its kind. During the meeting, activists stormed the hall in protest against the decision before being removed from the room, Wafa news reported.
Nurses at a Tehran hospital were beaten and detained, with scores dismissed or suspended, after staging a strike over poor working conditions, Iran International has learned.
Mexican activists call for end to water agreements with Israel Mexican activists have called on the government to end its cooperation agreements with Israel and safeguard the country's water resources. During a demonstration on Saturday, the protesters linked opposition to a water management agreement in the state of Chihuahua with protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. Civil organizations, environmentalists, and Palestine-solidarity collectives from at least 14 states of the country had called for a national march on 1 August to protest against the water cooperation agreement signed between the Central Water and Sanitation Board (JCAS) of Chihuahua and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to Mexico Solidarity Media.
A social media exchange about steak struck a chord among Iranian users this week, turning one young user's dream into a broader conversation about economic hardship and political frustration.
Chaos at London court as over 1,500 Palestine Action cases listed in one day Over 1,500 people facing terrorism charges in connection with Palestine Action protests had their cases listed for hearings in London on Thursday, causing "chaos" in the city. The campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ) reported that hundreds of people who faced terrorism charges for allegedly holding signs in support of the banned direct action group Palestine Action had been informed that their trials, initially scheduled for 30 July, were postponed until October. However on Wednesday some 1,579 people - including those who had received letters notifying them of the adjournment - were listed for trials on Thursday by Westminster Crown Court.
Chaos at London court as over 1,500 Palestine Action cases listed in one day Submitted by Katherine Hearst on Thu, 07/30/2026 - 15:38 Campaigners say ban on direct action group has sent the criminal justice system into 'complete meltdown' Police arrest a protestor outside Westminister Magistrates Court in London, 30 July 2026 (Amelia Halls) Off Over 1,500 people facing terrorism charges in connection with Palestine Action protests had their cases listed for hearings in London on Thursday, causing "chaos" in the city. The campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ) reported that hundreds of people who faced terrorism charges for allegedly holding signs in support of the banned direct action group Palestine Action had been informed that their trials, initially scheduled for 30 July, were postponed until October. However on Wednesday some 1,579 people - including those who had received letters notifying them of the adjournment - were listed for trials on Thursday by Westminster Crown Court.
Sixteen-year old Yalda Mohammadkhani was shot dead as she fled with her parents and younger sister from masked security forces on motorcycles during protests in Tehran on January 9, informed sources told Iran International.
Reacting to reports that security forces used lethal force against protesters in Rawalakot, Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the first day of the regional election, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said: “The disturbing reports emerging from Rawalakot are consistent with the Pakistani authorities’ long history of unlawful violence against protesters in Jammu and Kashmir. A prompt, independent, and transparent investigation must be ordered into the security forces’ use of force against protesters. So long as an internet and mobile […] The post Pakistan: Authorities must lift communications blackout following reports of lethal force used against protesters amid elections appeared first on Amnesty International .
The execution of two more protesters early Tuesday triggered widespread grief, anger and defiance across Iran, with many saying the hangings had strengthened, rather than broken, their resolve to oppose the Islamic Republic.
Iran executes two men over charges related to January protests Iran has executed two men who were sentenced to death for their part in protests in Isfahan during nationwide unrest that rocked the country in January, the Judiciary's Mizan News Agency reported on Tuesday. Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi were among 12 men sentenced to death on charges of taking part in the killing of security force members in Alikhani Square in Isfahan on January 8. Another two in the same trial had already been executed.
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