News from Al-Madinah: Iranian teenagers utilise a variety of strategies during their protests to avoid being pursued by the police and arrested due to their participation in the ongoing demonstrations that began the second month following the death of a “holy mosquito.”
The most noticeable of the young protesters wear masks, set their phones to “fly” to hide their location, and bring extra clothing to replace the paint-stained ones.
Activists have published on Twitter instructions to make the demonstrators their phones by placing the flight while participating in the protests, and to ask every person who uses his phone to do so or leave the place, as in the next tweet.
In the Kurdistan province’s Senndge, the home city of Misha Amini, protesters also take down security cameras and videotapes.
In other photos, people could be seen planning more modest meetings outside of the city’s arenas, which are typically utilised for political events. Without taking part in the demonstrations directly, others turned to other, more covert methods, such as turning Tehran fountain water into blood after artists had coloured it red to depict the fatal repression.
Without taking pictures of the participants’ faces, the arts students at a university took pictures of a video clip of their hands lifted in the air and painted red.
School students managed their appearances of the camera, and participated in the protests, in addition to chanting slogans against the Iranian guide, Ali Khamenei, amid a campaign against them against them by arresting them and sending them to psychological rehabilitation centers.
According to Henry Rumi, an expert on Iranian issues at the Washington Institute, “the more the demonstrations can organise and coordinate, the greater the chance to grow their support base and constitute a clear challenge in the near future to the regime.”
But the State Security Agency, he continued, “exacerbates the disruption of this kind of organised opposition by a variety of sophisticated tools of assault, arrests, Internet interruption, and intimidation.
“The state and the demonstrators are currently in an unstable balance, and none of them can get past the obstacle that the other poses, indicating that the current protest movement and violence may last for a very long time,” he said.
Videos of an armed attack on the Revolutionary Guards base were spread across Mashhad, but it was impossible to confirm their veracity.
It is notable that on September 16, protests broke out in Iran following the murder of Muhsa Amini (22 years old), who had been detained by the “Ethics Police” under the pretence of “not wearing her attire,” three days earlier.
Arab 21.
Iranian protesters use several strategies to avoid being pursued and detained.
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