The gathering of women and apprentice of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri was viciously attacked by security forces on Monday, November 21, 2016, across from the parliament.
Security forces and plainclothes agents arrested at least 50 people in this raid and took them away.
Massoumeh Haj-Ali, Mina Mo’ezi, Laila Heydari, Helen Shahbazi, Massoumeh Orang, Maryam Chegini, Roya Akbari, Bahareh Mansouri, Fatemeh Azarmehr, Sepideh Khazaii, Maryam Sohrabi, Mahsa Khodadadi, Ehteram Hodavand, Massoumeh Salehi, Baharak Azarnia, Kajal Nazari, Ania Hassani, Mehrangiz Momen, Paniz Hedayati, Zahra Mo’eini, Firouzeh Ranjbar, Maryam Amiri, Samaneh Zare’an, Mojdeh Zendedel, Raheleh Zare’e, Morvarid Fartoomi, Afsoon Islami, and Tamila Farahani were among the arrested women.
The video clip below shows scenes of the savagery of security forces against protesting women exercising their freedom of speech.
Mohammad Ali Taheri, on the 56th day of his hunger strike, is the founder of Cosmic Mysticism (Erfan-e Halgheh) who has completed his five-year sentence, but officials refuse to release him.