This is a list of notable cases of police brutality in Iran.(This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.) * 2009: During the Ashura protests across several cities, security forces opened fire on protestors, even though the Day of Ashura is a Shiite holy day "symbolically about justice" on which any kind of violence is forbidden. Security forces initially denied reports of deaths and stated that the police had not been armed; however, state television later acknowledged fatalities. An amateur video recorded a security truck deliberately running over protesters, and another shows a plain clothes security force shooting directly at protesters. * 2009–10: during the election protests, police and the Basij paramilitary group suppressed not only rioting but also peaceful demonstrati