Memorials for 2 Young Women Killed in Iran Galvanize Protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In a message to his Iranian counterpart after the Shiraz attack, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia offered to bolster security cooperation with Iran and help with counterterrorism efforts, according to Russian media reports.
43% : Videos showed anti-riot police attack and open fire during a memorial service in a rural cemetery near the northwestern town of Visian for Nika Shakarami, 16, whose killing at a street protest in Tehran last month where women were burning their hijabs catapulted her into a national symbol of defiance.
42% : Across Iranian cities on Thursday, including in the capital, Tehran, demonstrators chanted "freedom" and "death to the dictator," and security forces beat them, threw tear gas and opened fire at them, videos and media reports showed.
42% : In Tehran and the city of Isfahan, doctors were staging peaceful protests outside provincial government medical offices when security forces attacked them and beat them with batons, according to media reports and videos.
41% : Fifteen doctors were arrested in Tehran.
36% : She died after being detained in Tehran by the morality police for allegedly violating the country's hijab law requiring covered hair and loosefitting robes for women.
35% : In Tehran, a group of young women with their hair uncovered sat on the sidewalk facing off against a line of anti-riot police.
34% : Prison Fire: The causes of a fire in the notorious Evin Prison, in Tehran, remain unclear.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.