Iran: Authorities unleash heavily militarized clampdown to hide protest massacres

By Amnesty International

Sweeping arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, bans on gatherings and attacks to silence families of victims mark the suffocating militarization imposed in Iran by the Islamic Republic’s authorities in the aftermath of protest massacres, Amnesty International said today. Since 8-9 January 2026, when the Iranian authorities committed mass unlawful killings on an unprecedented scale to crush […] The post Iran: Authorities unleash heavily militarized clampdown to hide protest massacres appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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