In Tehran, female students not wearing hijabs demonstrated in a street chanting “Death to the dictator”, according to a video, the authenticity of which was verified by AFP.
With bullets and tear gas, the Iranian security forces tried to break up the demonstrations that were organized again today in several cities, in protest against the death of 22-year-old Mahsha Amini who had been arrested by the moral police.
Since the beginning of this movement, young women, students and schoolgirls, have been taking off their headscarves and cutting their hair, defying the prohibitions. At least 100 people have been killed, according to non-governmental organizations.
Today, many Iranians, men and women, took to the streets again to express their anger. Videos posted online by the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights and Kurdish rights group Hengaw showed gunfire in Isfahan, Karaj and Amini’s hometown, the Kurdish town of Sakez in northwestern Iran.
In Tehran, female students not wearing hijabs demonstrated in a street chanting “Death to the dictator”, according to a video, the authenticity of which was verified by AFP.
In the Iranian capital, security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration by lawyers who chanted the slogan “Woman, life, freedom”. At least three lawyers were arrested, according to the reformist newspaper Shargh.
According to Iran’s Isna news agency, a large number of police officers have been deployed in the capital. Demonstrations took place in some areas of the city, such as at Tehran University, and security forces intervened “to restore order without resorting to violence,” he added.
Since September 16, at least 108 people have been killed in the crackdown on protests, according to the IHR, and hundreds more have been arrested. The crackdown is particularly violent in Sanandaj, Iran’s Kurdistan province, where NGOs say authorities have used heavy weapons in some districts.
“Be the voice of Sanandaj” read the flyers dropped by the activists in the streets amid strict restrictions on internet use. Shops remained closed today in the city.
“The international community must prevent new killings in Kurdistan,” said Mahmoud Amiri-Moghadam, the director of the IHR. Iranians are also being asked to demonstrate “in solidarity with the heroic people of Zahedan”, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan, where security forces killed at least 93 people in riots that erupted on September 30 in protests over the rape of a young girl. by a police officer, always in accordance with the IHR.
Earlier today, after the US, Canada and other Western countries, the 27 members of the European Union gave the “green light” to impose sanctions on the Iranians responsible for the crackdown. The agreement reached at the level of permanent ambassadors in Brussels is expected to be ratified on Monday by the foreign ministers, who will meet in Luxembourg, as reported by diplomatic sources. “We must hold those responsible for the repression of women accountable. The time has come to sanction them. The shocking violence against the Iranian people cannot go unanswered,” commented European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Twitter.
MEPs have called for the EU to “blacklist” Iranian officials, especially those linked to the morality police.
Those sanctioned for human rights abuses are barred from entering the EU while any assets they may have in any of the 27 countries are “frozen”.
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