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Anoosheh Ashoori (top left) with his family
THE family of a British-Iranian man imprisoned in a Tehran jail riddled with Covid-19 held a protest today outside Downing Street to demand that the British government secure his release.
Iran temporarily released 85,000 inmates on Tuesday in an attempt to avoid mass outbreaks of the virus behind bars, but political prisoner Anoosheh Ashoori was not one of them.
The engineer, who lived with his family in London, was handed a 10-year sentence in 2019 after he was accused by Iran of spying for Israel, a charge he denies.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
