A month and a half after a wave of protests sparked by the death of Mahza Amini, fresh protests broke out in Iran on Sunday despite warnings from the Islamic Republic’s ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards.
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Students gathered in several Iranian cities on Saturday evening and Sunday to challenge General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards, who warned Saturday’s protesters: “Don’t take to the streets again.”
At the Free University in Tehran, protesters chanted hostile words against Iran’s president.
“You’re a shit fly, I’m a free woman”, can we hear in a video posted daily? Important thing.
Iran has been rocked by a protest movement since the September 16 death of Mahza Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, three days after he was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused him of violating the dress code. The Islamic Republic specifically mandates the veil for women.
Along with the initial slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”, during the demonstrations, slogans were publicly added against the Islamic Republic, founded in 1979, however harshly suppressed.
On Sunday, security forces fired tear gas and gunfire at students in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province where Mahza Amini was based.
A video posted online by human rights group Henga shows thick white smoke billowing from the technical school and students shouting “freedom, freedom”.
“Every death is followed by a thousand!” Protesters chanted at the funeral of a protester in Arak, southwest of the capital, on Saturday, according to images broadcast by online media 1500tasvir. The media reported that the rally was broken up by tear gas canisters.
At least 160 people, including at least 20 children, have died in the crackdown on protests across Iran, according to a report established on Friday by the IHR.
Additionally, in Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchistan (southeast) province, 93 people were killed in protests sparked on September 30 following the rape of a young woman by a policeman, IHR .
In Mahsa Amini’s hometown of Chakes in Kurdistan, plainclothes police “attacked the college and kidnapped students,” Henggao reported.
According to the IHR, thousands of people have been arrested in Iran since the crackdown began, including journalists, students, lawyers and more than 500 civil society activists.
On Sunday, more than 300 Iranian journalists and photojournalists signed a statement criticizing the arrest of their colleagues, local media reported.
The reformist daily Sasandegi reported that “more than 20 journalists are still in custody”, particularly in the capital, which Tehran’s journalists’ union dismissed as “illegal” and “against the security approach”. of officers.
Iranian leaders continue to point fingers at Iran’s “enemies,” including the United States and Israel, and accuse journalists of being “trained” to overthrow the regime.
