DUBAI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Forty prominent Iranian human rights lawyers have publicly criticised the country's clerical rulers, saying they will fall because protesters across the country are no longer afraid of violent crackdowns.
“The government is still drowning in illusions and believes it can repress, arrest and kill to silence,” the lawyers, some inside the country and some outside, said in a statement sent to Reuters.
Protests ignited by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 after her arrest for inappropriate attire have shaken Iran’s clerical establishment – both the supreme leader and president are clerics – with people from all walks of life demanding wholesale political change. Iran has been widening its crackdown, deploying security forces at protests and making arrests of a wide range of Iranian from lawyers to doctors to rappers.
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