Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 9: Digital activists who support Iran’s wave of female-led protests have hacked a state television live news broadcast and replaced the face of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with crosshairs and flames.
The breach, which was attributed to the hacktivist collective Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice), cut out video of Khamenei meeting with government officials and inserted the message “Join us and rise up” to the upper right corner of the screen.
“The blood of our youths is on your hands,” read a message on screen in the broadcast that started 9pm local time Saturday, as protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, again rocked Tehran and other cities.
The broadcast, which began at 9 p.m. local time on Saturday, featured a message that said, “The blood of our youths is on your hands,” as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini shook Tehran and other cities once more.
For a few seconds, black-and-white pictures of Amini and three other women killed during the more than three weeks of unrest and crackdown by state security forces were also shown to Iranian viewers.
Ayatollah Amini’s murder on September 16 three days after her infamous morality police detention in Tehran for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s stringent clothing code for women sparked outrage.
Persian media outlets and rights organisations operating outside of Iran widely publicised the hack and posted the video on social media.
