Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says Iran internet shutdown could hide possible ‘massacre’ |
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Friday warned security forces in the Islamic Republic could be preparing to commit a “massacre under the cover of a sweeping communications blackout” after imposing a nationwide internet shutdown.
The internet shutdown is “not a technical failure… it is a tactic,” the veteran campaigner, who now lives in exile, said on her official Telegram account.
She said she had received information that hundreds of people had been taken to a Tehran hospital on Thursday with “severe eye injuries” caused by pellet gun fire.
Protests have taken place across Iran for 13 days in a movement sparked by anger over the rising cost of living that is now marked by calls for the end of the clerical system that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted the pro-Western shah.
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