Iran International

Iranian activist and former political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi
has sewn his lips shut in protest “against the dictatorship and tyranny of the regime.”

Echoing the words of the late Iranian journalist and activist Kianoosh Sanjari, Ronaghi said “perhaps this will be a wake-up call… Long live Iran,” in a post on X on Sunday.

On Saturday night, Ronaghi announced he would appear at Tehran's Revolutionary Court with his lips sewn, protesting “against the occupiers of this land, against poverty, against executions, against the oppression of women and imprisonment of the people, and against every form of injustice imposed on this country by the Islamic Republic.”

He further condemned a “deceitful government” that he accused of exploiting the nation’s wealth for its own interests and a judiciary that “has become a center of injustice, oppression, and denial of rights” to silence dissent.