At least 92 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on women-led protests that began after the arrest and killing of Mahsa Amini by notorious moral police, the Iran Human Rights Group said on Sunday. have been killed.
Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, was pronounced dead on September 16 after she was allegedly detained for violating laws requiring women to wear hijab scarves and modest clothing. That sparked the biggest wave of public unrest in Iran in nearly three years.
Another 41 people were killed in clashes in Iran’s far southeast, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, on Friday, the Oslo-based IHR said, citing local sources that the protests were directed at a police chief in the area. started after allegations of raping a teenage girl. Minority
Solidarity rallies with Iranian women – who have burned their hijabs since the 1979 Islamic revolution – held around the world, took place in more than 150 cities on Saturday.
Clashes between Iranian protesters and security forces have rocked cities across the country for 16 consecutive nights since they first erupted in western regions, home to Iran’s Kurdish minority, where Amini was from.
“Subversives” and “thugs”, some throwing Molotov cocktails, attacked the Tehran headquarters of Iran’s leading ultra-conservative daily Kayhan on Saturday, the newspaper said, whose director is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. have been appointed.
IHR Director Mahmoud Amiri-Moghdam urged the international community to take immediate action against the Islamic Republic to stop the killings of Iranian protesters, saying they amounted to “crimes against humanity”.
‘Rape of Teenage Girl’
At least 92 protesters have been killed in Mahsa Amini rallies so far, said the IHR, which is working to estimate the death toll despite internet blackouts and blocks on WhatsApp, Instagram and other online services. is doing
London-based Amnesty International said it had previously confirmed 53 deaths, while Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said last week that “around 60” people had been killed.
As Tehran also grappled with unrest in the country’s southeast, it said five members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed in Friday’s clashes in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province.
The poverty-stricken region has often seen clashes with Balochi minority insurgents, Sunni Muslim extremist groups and drug-trafficking gangs.
But Maulvi Abdul Hamid, a Sunni Muslim preacher, said in a post on the Alam website on Wednesday that the community was “inflamed” after the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a police officer in the province.
The IHR accused the predominantly Shia country’s security forces of “bloodily suppressing” protests in Zahedan, which began after a police chief in the province’s port city of Chabahar was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl from the Sunni Baloch minority. Started after Friday.
Iran has blamed outside powers for fomenting the nationwide protests, particularly its arch-enemy the United States and Washington’s Western allies.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Friday that nine foreign nationals – including from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland – were arrested “at or behind the scene of the riots”, along with 256 members of banned opposition groups.
