More than 90% of the detainees are under the age of 25
More than 90% of the detainees are under the age of 25 1/2/2018 4:22:07 PM More than 90 percent of the detainees are youths and teenagers with an average age of under 25 Iran Uprising -No. 25 IRGC Brigadier Gen. Hossein Zolfaghari, the security deputy of the Interior Ministry, threatened protesters on Monday, January 1st to reinforce more control, acknowledging that more than 90 percent of the detainees are youths and teenagers with an average age of under 25. ILNA, the state news agency, wrote on January 1st that by Sunday law enforcement and judicial authorities had reported more than 400 people were arrested during recent protests. According to preliminary reports, the number of detainees amounted to 1,000 by Sunday, December 31. In addition, on Sunday night, IRGC forces and plainclothes mercenaries arrested a large number of people and youths in Mashhad. Earlier, a number of people were also arrested in Qazvin and Qaemshahr. Regime’s intelligence...