Amnesty Lethbridge

May 5 is Red Dress Day ❤️

Inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black’s REDress Project, this day honours Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S+).

Red dresses are hung in trees and windows, and communities gather for walks and ceremonies—remembering loved ones and calling for justice.

Show solidarity by participating in local events or at home—hang a red dress or wear red.

Please take a minute to sign this. We must put pressure on Iranian authorities to end this brutal crackdown on the protesters.

People in Iran, outraged at decades of repression, have poured into the streets since 28 December 2025 demanding fundamental change and a political system respecting human rights and dignity. They have been met with unprecedented lethal repression by security forces, carrying out mass killings under the cover of digital darkness since 8 January.

Protests erupted following a sharp currency collapse and chronic state mismanagement of essential services and worsening living conditions. Starting with shop closures and strikes in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, protests evolved into mass nationwide street demonstrations calling for the downfall of the Islamic Republic system.

We have documented how security forces repeatedly and unlawfully fired rifles and shotguns loaded with metal pellets at unarmed protesters. Medical facilities have been overwhelmed with the injured, while distraught families searched for their missing loved ones in overflowing morgues, hospitals and even piles of bodies in warehouses and freight containers.

End Protest Massacres in Iran Call on the international community to urgently act to end further massacres of protesters in Iran.