People across the world have participated in demonstrations against the Iranian government for more than six weeks.
A “human chain” of protesters stretched along Yonge Street on Saturday in support of protests against the Iranian government.chanted the name of Mahsa Amini
, who died after being detained by Iran’s morality police in September. Online reports show protesters gathered near Yonge-Dundas Square as well as Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue. Similar protests unfolded on Saturday in cities including Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa, part of a worldwide “human chain” organized by the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims.
Arash Morattab, whose brother and sister-in-law were among the 176 people killed on Jan. 8, 2020 when Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a Ukranian airliner, said the victims of Flight 752 have common cause with the protest movement that has rocked Iran for nearly a month and a half in the face of harsh backlash from security forces.
“We are all victims of a regime that started killing people from the first days of them coming into power, and this keeps going until now,” Morattab told the Canadian Press. “They killed our beloved ones in January 2020, and now they kill other people that fight for their rights.”
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