30 Iranian mothers arrested at peaceful gathering, group says

[StarfarerBill]

Source: CNN

Thirty members of a women's group were arrested by Iranian security forces during a peaceful protest in a Tehran park on Saturday, a human rights organization reported.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, citing an eyewitness account, said more than 100 police and plainclothes officers broke up a gathering of the Mourning Mothers in Laleh Park Saturday afternoon. The group -- formed by women whose children have been killed in recent anti-government protests -- gathers every weekend at the park to call attention to the deaths.

"They would not allow anyone to even sit on the benches or congregate," the organization quoted the unidentified witness as saying. "After about 70 mothers entered the park, security forces engaged them and started chasing them, grabbing them, and forcing them into police vans. They used a lot of violence and insults in the process."

The witness said families and other members of the group later went to the Vozara Detention Center where officials provided the names of 30 members detained.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/10/iran.mourning.mothers/index.html

[woo me with science]

1. This is the kind of stuff that creates revolutions. nt

[StarfarerBill]

2. I agree, and I hope this and every other atrocity the regime commits is heard about...

...from one end of Iran to the other.

[woo me with science]

3. Yup.

Don't mess with people's mothers.

[Betsy Ross]

4. This has been predicted by Iranian opposition.

I read a read report from Iran last month that said something was going to happen that would put the regime in a lose/lose situation and that women would be the driving force. I think we will see more women in more demonstrations. At some point, it will achieve critical mass and the mullahs will lose if they take action and lose if they don't.