A news bulletin on Iranian state television was hacked as footage of the country's supreme leader flashed on screen alongside critical messages.
who was arrested by morality police on Sept. 13 for allegedly violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. She died three days later.Throughout the 15 second hack, a caption read “Join us and stand up!” and along with text criticizing Khamenei for their deaths. A song with the lyrics “Woman. Life. Freedom” — a common chant of the protesters — played in the background.
The protests, which Iran’s leaders have attempted to characterize the protests as a foreign plot, entered their fourth week Sunday despite a fierce crackdown by authorities inDemonstrations that began on Sept. 17 at the funeral of 22-year-old Amini in her hometown of Saqez, continued in several cities including the Iranian capital Tehran, where hundreds of people took to the streets.
Both the France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network and Hengaw said the man was shot after honking at security forces stationed on the street. NBC News cannot independently verify this, but Honking has become one of the ways activists have been expressing civil disobedience.Cliff Owen / AP Another video of a protest in the northeastern city of Mashhad showed a group of men throwing molotov cocktails and other projectiles in the direction of nearby riot police. NBC News has verified this footage.
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