After the summons of the November 2019 protesters, a wave of summons of journalists and political activists began.

Reports indicate that a hearing will be held to hear the charges against a large number of journalists and political activists in connection with the November 2019 protests.

On Wednesday, July 25, journalist Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi announced in a series of tweets that a hearing would be held to hear the charges against some political activists in connection with the November protests last year, writing that the indictment in this case "only includes the charge of propaganda against the system."

He added: "Some of those present and their lawyers in this meeting called for a political crime ruling and for the case to be referred to a general court with a jury present."

According to Mr. Zeidabadi, in addition to him, political activists and journalists such as "Azar Mansouri, Reyhaneh Tabatabaei, Mehdi Mahmoudian, Abdullah Ramezanzadeh, Mehdi Darispour, Issa Saharkhiz" as well as lawyers for some individuals such as Sedighe Vasmaghi, Behzad Ghorbannejad, Mohsen Armin, Mohsen Aminzadeh, and Hossein Karroubi were also present at this meeting.

Previously, Mohammad Javad Ahmadi and Aria Hamedirad, two of the detainees from the November protests, were sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.

With the November protests and the arrest of a number of Iranian citizens, 160 lawyers signed a letter addressed to the President of Iran, calling for an investigation into the violence in the suppression of November protesters this year and for action against the perpetrators of these clashes.

On Thursday, November 20, President Donald Trump, in his first public statement on the protests in Iran, said that Iran had become so unstable that the regime had shut down the entire internet system so that the good people of Iran could not speak out about the extreme violence taking place inside the country.

Following these protests, the Reuters news agency reported that the death toll in the Iranian protests was 1,500, citing three sources close to the leader of the Islamic Republic, who wrote that Khamenei had ordered government and security officials to do "whatever is necessary" to stop the protests.

But after more than 6 months since the November 2019 protests, the Islamic Republic authorities announced for the first time that the death toll from these protests was around 225. This figure contradicts international statistics.

Source: Voice of America