Mahsha Amini: At least 108 dead from crackdown on protests in Iran

At least 108 people have been killed in Iran from the suppression of demonstrations which broke out almost a month ago after the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the moral policea non-governmental organization announced today.

The Iranian security forces also killed at least 93 other people in incidents in the city of Zahedan, in Sistan-Baluchistan province, the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) reported. In Zahedan, the incidents broke out during protests that took place after a teenage girl was raped by a police officer.

The defiance movement in Iran erupted on September 16the day on which the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Amini died, three days after her arrest in Tehran by the moral police for not wearing her headscarf properly.

For its part, the judicial authority of Iran announced today, according to APE-MPE, that more than 100 people have been charged.

The authority said it had “indicted 60 people” in Tehran and 65 others in Hormozgan province who were arrested during the “recent riots,” the website Mizan Online reported.

Despite hundreds of arrests and a bloody crackdown, the movement – ​​the most significant to break out in Iran since 2019 – does not appear to be abating.

Human rights organizations warn against it particularly violent suppression of demonstrations, mainly in Sanandaz, the capital of Kurdistan province, where Amini came from.

“The international community should prevent further deaths in Kurdistan by mounting an immediate response,” Mahmoud Amiri-Moghadam, director of the Norway-based IHR, said today, warning of “imminent bloody repression” in the province.

The restrictions on internet access imposed by the authorities are hindering NGO research into the scope of the crackdown, he complained.

According to the NGO, 14 people have been killed in Kurdistan since the start of the protest movement, but this tally does not include the victims of the “bloody crackdown” of the past three days, during which “major demonstrations” took place in Sanandaz.

Elsewhere in the country, 11 people were killed in Tehran province and 28 in Mazandaran province, according to IHR, which noted that even children have been arrested.

“Children have the right to protestthe UN has an obligation to defend the rights of the children of Iran by exerting pressure on the Islamic Republic”, assessed Amiri-Moghaddam.