Protesters rally in Iran to mark 40 days since woman's death

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Iranian judicial officials announced this week they would bring over 600 people to trial over their role in the protests, including 315 in Tehran, 201 in the neighboring Alborz province and 105 in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
45% : The sanctions involve an entry and visa ban for the staffers in addition to the confiscation of their assets in Iran.
44% : Anti-government chants also echoed from the University of Tehran campus.
44% : But they quickly evolved into calls to oust the Shiite clerics that have ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
38% : The deadly collapse of the Metropol Building on May 23 became a lightning rod for protests in Abadan, some 660 kilometers (410 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran.
38% : In Amini's Kurdish hometown of Saqez, the birthplace of the nationwide unrest now roiling Iran, crowds snaked through the local cemetery and thronged her grave.
36% : Last week, Iran imposed sanctions on over a dozen European officials, companies and institutions, including foreign-based Farsi channels that have extensively covered the protests, accusing them of "supporting terrorism."
34% : Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi told the state-run IRNA news agency that four protesters were charged with "war against God," which is punishable by death in Iran.
29% : In this frame grab from video taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian police arrive to disperse a protest to mark 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, whose tragedy sparked Iran's biggest antigovernment movement in over a decade, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.
27% : The disaster shined a spotlight on shoddy construction practices, government corruption and negligence in Iran.

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