Despite the repression, the demonstrations continue throughout the country in response to the death of the 22 -year -old woman on September 16, after her arrest by the moral police. Six people were reportedly killed in clashes with the police.
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From Kurdistan to Tehran, anger does not fall back into Iran. For the third consecutive day, cities and universities were the scene of demonstrations against the regime. The death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, after her arrest by a patrol of the moral police, served as a catalyst. The 22 -year -old young woman, arrested in a street in the capital for a scarf deemed “badly worn”, has become a new symbol of the brutality of the Iranian state.
The slogans of the demonstrators – “woman, life, freedom”, “a lot of the dictator”, “died in Khamenei [the supreme guide and the highest authority in the country]” aim for the regime and its foundations. Starting with the compulsory port of the veil, a dogma of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In response, the repression has mounted a notch and, with it, the harshness of the clashes, the demonstrators not hesitating to retaliate to police violence or to attack the vehicles of the moral police. A woman was killed in Kermanshah (west), according to videos published on social networks; A 23-year-old in Ourmia, in the northwest of the country, reports the NGO Kurdistan Human Rights Network, which would bring the number of deaths to Iranian Kurdistan, where Mahsa Amini is from. At least 221 people were injured there, including 70 demonstrators, according to researcher Asso Hassan Zadeh, former vice-secretary general of the Kurdistan Department of Iran (PDKI), who evokes 250 arrests.
Tuesday September 20, shortly before nightfall, protesters gathered in the center of Tehran, near Boulevard Keshavarz. “This evening, there were many more police forces, in civilian clothes and uniform, testifies Said, a press photographer who has covered all the demonstrations in recent years in Iran. Yesterday, they sometimes just asked the demonstrators to leave. Tonight, they stamped, drew abundantly tear gas and aimed at people with their flash balls. Many people were arrested. “
scarves burned in public
Tuesday morning, students gathered in the universities of Tabriz (North-West), Yazd (Center) and Tehran. In the photos and videos published on social networks, many women do not wear scarves. Some even burned it in public, to the applause of the crowd.
Unlike other protest movements that the country has known in recent years, the demonstrators are this time more numerous and scattered in different districts, says Said. Which would complicate the task of the police. “The affected cities are also numerous and the police, the guards of the revolution and the members of the Bassidj [the militias] who participate in the repression are obliged to disperse,” he adds. Data-format = “inread” aria-hidden = “true”>
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