Exclusive: Leaked Iranian Government Documents Reveal Orders to Conceal Protester Killings

FILE - Iranians protest in Tehran on Sept. 20, 2022. Documents apparently hacked from an Iranian government database have shed new light on how Iran's Islamist rulers covered up casualties from violent crackdowns on mostly peaceful protests.

Documents apparently hacked from an Iranian government database and published exclusively by VOA's Persian Service have shed new light on how Iran's Islamist rulers covered up casualties from violent crackdowns on mostly peaceful mass protests and falsely labeled them as riots in recent years.