Police Beat Women Protesting for Rights
From Times Wire Reports
Police with batons and shields beat women’s rights demonstrators in a downtown Tehran square, injuring one protester and detaining 20.
The protest by about 200 women was organized by a previously unknown group calling itself the Labor and Communist Party. “We are women, we are human, but we don’t have any rights!” protesters chanted.
About 100 police, including female officers, attacked the demonstrators and dispersed them about an hour after the protest began.
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