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Amnesty International Italy and Women Life Freedom for Peace and Justice are staging a demonstration on the steps of city hall in Rome on Friday to express their solidarity with the Iranian people.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Rome rally, scheduled for 16.00, comes amid a brutal crackdown by Iranian authorities on mass protests that have left thousands dead and put tens of thousands in prison, amid a total internet blackout.<\/p>\n
In addition to numerous civil associations, the Italian political world will be strongly represented at the Campidoglio, with senior politicians from most political parties set to attend.<\/p>\n
Among those expected from the centre-left opposition are Partito Democratico (PD) leader\u00a0Elly Schlein<\/strong>\u00a0and Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) leader\u00a0Giuseppe Conte<\/strong>, news agency ANSA reports.<\/p>\n The leaders of the Green Left Alliance (AVS), Angelo Bonelli<\/strong> and Nicola Fratoianni<\/strong>, and the secretary of Pi\u00f9 Europa, Riccardo Magi<\/strong>, will also be there, as will the city’s centre-left mayor, Roberto Gualtieri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Members of the centrist Italia Viva<\/strong> party are expected too, while the centre-right Forza Italia will be represented by city councillor Rachele Mussolini<\/strong>, ANSA reports.<\/p>\n Leader of the centrist Azione party Carlo Calenda<\/strong> will not be present at the rally on Friday but will instead join the Radicali at the march scheduled for Saturday at Piazzale Ostiense.<\/p>\n Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella<\/strong> on Thursday condemned what he called the “brutal massacre” of anti-government protesters in Iran.<\/p>\n Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani<\/strong> on Monday said that Italy was withdrawing all non-essential staff from its embassy in Tehran, while on Wednesday the foreign ministry urged all Italians in Iran to leave the country.<\/p>\n Amnesty International Italy is holding other rallies in cities around Italy including Bari, Bologna, Florence, La Spezia, Lecce, Trieste and Verona. For details see official website.<\/em><\/p>\n Photo credit: Federico Gallucci \/ Shutterstock.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Protests in Rome and cities across Italy against Iran regime. Amnesty International Italy and Women Life Freedom for Peace and Justice are staging a demonstration on the steps of city hall in Rome on Friday to express their solidarity with the Iranian people. The\u00a0Rome rally, scheduled for 16.00, comes amid a brutal crackdown by Iranian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[29255,3132,3432,29254,1166,2423,24235],"class_list":["post-44968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-iranian","tag-italian","tag-join","tag-politicians","tag-rally","tag-rome","tag-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}