The Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates Saturday the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, with state-organized demonstrations, but hackers managed to briefly disrupt President Ebrahim Raisi’s televised speech, chanting “death to the Islamic Republic” while the broadcast displayed the hacker group’s logo.
Raisi, whose hardline government faces protests from young protesters calling for his dismissal and demanding to be able to live more freely, made an appeal in his speech to what he called “deluded youth”to whom he asked them to “repent and be pardoned by the Supreme Leader of Iran”, Ali Khamenei.
In that case, Raisi told a crowd gathered in Tehran’s vast Azadi Square, “the Iranian people will welcome you with open arms.”
However, Raisi’s televised speech was interrupted on the internet for about a minutewhile a logo of a group of hackers against the Iranian government that responds to the name of “Edalat Ali (Ali’s Justice)”. That’s when a voice yelled on the broadcast “Death to the Islamic Republic”.
Protests across the country rocked Iran after the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police. The security forces responded with a harsh crackdown, trying to quell one of the biggest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution toppled 2,500 years of monarchy.
Within the framework of an amnesty on the occasion of the anniversary of the revolution, the Iranian authorities agreed to release the imprisoned dissident this Friday Farhad Meysamiwho had been on hunger strike, and the Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah.
While, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decreed an amnesty for a large number of prisonersincluding some detained in recent anti-government protests. The human rights group HRANA said that as of Friday, 528 protesters had been killed, 71 of them minors. Seventy members of the government security forces had also been killed. It is believed that about 20,000 demonstrators have been arrested due to the protests, including several executions by hanging.
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