Iranians in the Netherlands 2010, when the Islamic Republic Embassy in The Hague organized a "Peace Concert" at Rotterdam's De Doelen Concert Hall, it had to be stopped in the middle, because of physical confrontations between angry protesters and the embassy agents. In April 2010 a group of Iranian and Dutch protesters occupied parts of Islamic Republic Embassy in the Hague in protest to Iran's oppressive and violent policies. During this act of protest, the flag of the Islamic Republic has been lowered and replaced with a banner bearing an image of Neda Agha Soltan, the woman who was shot to death in Tehran's
Arash Hejazi known novel "The Princess of the Land of Eternity" was shortlisted for two major Iranian literary prizes and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iran since its first publication in 2003. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. His dissertation on censorship in Iran was published in the publishing journal "Logos" in 2011, and his memoir "The Gaze of the Gazelle" about growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution was published by Chicago University Press in 2011. He was present at the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests,