{"id":32560,"date":"2022-03-09T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=32560"},"modified":"2022-03-09T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:55:35","slug":"february-2022-saw-further-increases-in-the-iranian-regimes-inhumane-treatment-of-the-iranian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2022\/03\/february-2022-saw-further-increases-in-the-iranian-regimes-inhumane-treatment-of-the-iranian-people\/32560\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2022 Saw Further Increases in the Iranian Regime\u2019s Inhumane Treatment of the Iranian People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Human — _{Human rights violations in Iran \u2013 February 2022<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSince the start of the year, the unrest within Iranian society has been steadily growing. Throughout February 2022, the spread of protests across the country has also risen considerably, causing the Iranian regime to ramp up their crackdown of the spreading discontent, in fear of the protests turning into nationwide uprisings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, on the rise is the number of executions that the regime has carried out in the last month alone, and scale of arrests of activists and dissidents across the country is an ongoing trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) said<\/a>, \u201cTorture, degrading punishments, and persecution of citizens continued in Iran. The regime violated the right to peaceful assembly by the arrest of a number of teachers, during the nationwide sit-ins and demonstrations of Iranian teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Security forces and plainclothes agents on February 17, attacked and arrested mourners who were holding a ceremony on the 40th day of the death of dissident writer and poet\u00a0Baktash Abtin<\/a>. They were chanting \u201cdown with tyrants, viva Abtin<\/a>\u201d when they were attacked in a cemetery in Shahr-e-Rey, Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFootage of funeral for political prisoner Baktash Abtin
in Shahr-e-Rey, Tehran, #Iran<\/a>
The poet and free speech advocate passed away yesterday because prison authorities denied him timely medical care after he contracted #COVID19<\/a> in Evin Prison. pic.twitter.com\/6qwTWtFAFM<\/a><\/p>\u2014 IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) January 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>}