For several months people have been protesting against the government’s repressive course and the Islamic system of rule. A human rights organization is now drawing a sad interim balance.
According to research by human rights activists, at least 522 people have been killed in the system-critical protests in Iran that have been going on for four months. The US-based organization Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that 70 minors and 68 police and security forces were among the dead.
Nearly 20,000 people were also arrested, 110 of them on charges that, according to Islamic law, could lead to a death sentence. Four demonstrators have already been executed. The protests have spread to more than 160 cities across the country since they began in mid-September, according to the HRANA report.
Iran itself has not yet provided any information on the deaths and arrests and has neither confirmed nor denied the HRANA reports in this regard.
The protests in Iran were triggered by the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini. The moral police had arrested her because she allegedly did not comply with the mandatory rules for wearing a headscarf. The woman died in police custody on September 16. Since her death, thousands have been demonstrating across the country against the government’s repressive course and the Islamic system of rule.
Source: Stern
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