In Amini’s hometown Saqez, Kurdistan, schoolgirls chanted and marched down a street swinging their hijab headscarves in the air, in videos the Hengaw rights group said were recorded on Saturday.
“Videos coming out from Tehran indicate that there are so many protests, in every corner of the city, in small and big numbers,” said U.S.-based campaigner and journalist Omid Memarian on Twitter. Iran has been torn by the biggest wave of social unrest in almost three years, which has seen protesters including university students and even young schoolgirls chant “Woman, Life, Freedom”. Why are women in Iran cutting their hair in protest? One Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member was killed Saturday in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, and a member of the IRGC’s Basij paramilitary force died in Tehran from “a serious head injury following an armed attack by a mob,” IRNA said - in killings that raised the death toll among security forces to 14. It also posted pictures of Amini and three other women killed in the crackdown that has claimed at least 95 lives according to Norway-based group Iran Human Rights.Īnother 90 people were killed in Iran’s far southeast, in unrest on September 30 sparked by the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a police chief in Sistan-Baluchestan province, said IHR, citing the U.K.-based Baluch Activists Campaign.
“Join us and rise up,” read another message in the TV hack claimed by the group Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice). “Police forces used tear gas to disperse the crowds in dozens of locations in Tehran,” state news agency IRNA reported, adding that the demonstrators “chanted slogans and set fire to and damaged public property, including a police booth”.Īnger has flared since the death of Amini on September 16, three days after she was arrested by the notorious morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. “The blood of our youths is on your hands,” read an on-screen message that flashed up briefly during the TV broadcast Saturday evening, as street protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, again rocked Tehran and other cities. In other anti-regime messages, activists have spray-painted “Death to Khamenei” and “The Police are the Murderers of the People” on billboards in Tehran.Įxplained | Mahsa Amini and the widespread protests in Iran
Hackers supporting Iran’s wave of women-led protests interrupted a state TV news broadcast with an image of gun-sight crosshairs and flames over an image of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in footage widely shared online on Sunday.
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