Fereshteh Ghazi is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Iran has arrested a singer whose song about the ongoing protests in the country has gone viral, RFE/RL's Radio Farda has learned. Shervin Hajipour's arrest comes amid a crackdown on artists, journalists, and activists.
Maryam Behtarpur lost her 27-year-old son during Iran's November 2019 state crackdown on antiestablishment protests. Authorities doubled down recently by arresting her husband and her younger son, and her daughter now faces more than four years in prison.
In 1998, several Iranian intellectuals and dissidents were brutally killed by Intelligence Ministry agents in what became to be known as the "chain murders." Twenty-two years later, there has been no official claim of responsibility for several of the victims and many cases remain unsolved.
The relatives of some of the hundreds killed in the state crackdown on anti-establishment protests in November 2019 say they have been threatened and prevented from holding memorials to mark the first anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
