"She said there were many people chanting anti-regime slogans. "We saw so many people. People were there with their young kids, old parents, a man in a wheelchair. It was amazing. The groups kept getting bigger and more confident. I will never forget the ecstatic feeling I had when we lit the rotten flag of the Islamic Republic on fire.""
"During the same period, a housewife interviewed by NPR says her husband left their house in Karaj to join the protests. He never came back. She went to the morgue in Tehran and was told she'd have to pay more than $6,000 to get her husband's body back and sign a document saying he was a member of the regime's paramilitary force, which"
Human Rights Activists News Agency reports that more than 6,000 people have been killed amid nationwide protests in Iran. A partial restoration of internet access has allowed videos and testimonies of violence and death to spread. Three women agreed to share anonymous first-person accounts of street protests, killings, and disappearances. One content creator in Karaj described diverse crowds and the burning of the Islamic Republic flag before security forces opened fire. Security forces reportedly had orders to shoot directly. A woman reported her husband vanished after joining protests and the morgue demanded payment and a signed document labeling him a paramilitary member to release his body.
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