Protests- Iran: Judicial authorities have indicted at least 1,000 people

Iranian justice announced today that it has indicted at least 300 people, bringing to over a thousand the official number of people who have been charged in connection with the protests that broke out in Iran after the death of Mahsha Amini.

Iran has been rocked by protests since the September 16 death of a young Kurdish woman, who died three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police for violating the country’s strict dress code that mostly requires women to wear the hijab in public.

Dozens of people, mainly protesters but also members of the security forces, were killed in the demonstrations that were described as “riots” by the authorities. Hundreds of others, including women, were arrested.

At least 300 people involved in the protests have been charged in the provinces of Zanjan and West Azerbaijan in the northwest, and Semnan in the northeast, Mizan Online, the website of the Iranian Judiciary, reported today.

Thousands of people gathered today at the cemetery in the city of Saguez, Kurdistan province, where Mahsa Amini is buried, to pay their respects to the girl at the end of the 40-day mourning period.

The day before yesterday, Monday, the Authority had announced that it had indicted 201 “troublemakers” in Alborz, a province neighboring the capital Tehran.

In recent days, Iran has announced that it has indicted at least 630 people among protesters in Tehran, Kurdistan (west), Khuzestan (southwest), Qazvin and Isfahan (center).

At least four people have been charged with offenses that carry the death penalty while others are being prosecuted mainly for “infringement on security”, propaganda” against the authorities and “attack on the forces of order”.

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