Iran: the mobilization in tribute to Mahsa Amini does not weaken
Demonstration in Tehran, capital of Iran, on October 1.
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Iranian security forces opened fire on Wednesday (October 26th) at protesters gathered in Mahsa Amini's hometown, where thousands of people had attended a tribute ceremony at the end of the traditional 40-day mourning.
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The demonstrators wanted to mark the occasion this Wednesday, October 27, on the fortieth day following
the death of Mahsa Amini
, who died on September 16 after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran, for wearing a veil deemed improper.
This was without counting on the reaction of the authorities who, according to Hengaw, a group for the defense of the rights of the Kurds of Iran based in Norway, opened fire on the demonstrators gathered in Saghez, city of origin of the young woman of 22. year.
According to the Iranian agency Fars, nearly 2,000 people gathered at the cemetery where the body of Mahsa Amini rests.
#IranRevolution2022—October 26, Day 41
Kurdistan, W #Iran—Hundreds of citizens rally on the grave of Mahsa Amini in Aichi cemetery, chanting:
Death to the child-killing regime!#MahsaAmini🌹 pic.twitter.com/NHhYYtXXPD
— Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) October 26, 2022
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It was a bit of a show of force or a test of truth since the security forces had cordoned off the town of Saghez where Mahsa Amini is buried.
His family was under house arrest, therefore prohibited from going to the place of the ceremony, and people arrived on foot, since the roads were blocked, from early morning.
From 8 a.m., there was a crowd for four kilometers going to the cemetery
, ”shares the anthropologist Chowra Makaremi, at the microphone of
Nicolas Falez
, of the international service.
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Riot police
The Iranian authorities had taken measures to try to prevent the gatherings expected for this symbolic date which marks the 40th and last day of mourning for the young Iranian, reports our correspondent in Tehran
Siavosh Ghazi
.
Riot police had notably been deployed in the capital on Tuesday.
Access to the city would also have been blocked, as would the internet connection.
According to human rights activists, the security forces had warned the young woman's parents against organizing a tribute ceremony at her grave, going so far as to threaten "
the life of their son
".
Already on Tuesday, October 25, demonstrations had taken place in several universities in the country to denounce the repression exerted by the security forces, accused of having beaten schoolgirls the day before.
Soore University students in Tehran showing solidarity with Kurdistan.
October 26, 2022#MahsaAmini#ZhinaAmini#Kurdistanpic.twitter.com/AiNo2zqhT2
— Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) October 26, 2022
The death of Mahsa Amini has triggered a wave of protests unprecedented for three years, which continues across Iran.
The violence and savagery of the repression, with kidnappings, enforced disappearances, rapes, martyred bodies returned to the families, all these pressures to terrorize the population have failed to demoralize and lessen the conviction of the demonstrators, and this is what is absolutely new today and which has never been seen for the 43 years that the Islamic Republic has lasted
Iran: A movement that lasts, according to anthropologist Chowra Makaremi
Iran: A movement that lasts, according to anthropologist Chowra Makaremi
Nicolas Falez
Young women and schoolgirls took to the front line, many bareheaded, burning their veils and defying the security forces.
The crackdown on protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini has left at least 141 people dead, including children, according to a new report revealed on Tuesday by the NGO
Iran Human Rights
(IHR), based in Oslo.
Iranian justice announced on Wednesday that it had charged more than 300 people, bringing the official number of charges linked to these demonstrations to more than a thousand.
► To read also:
Iran: a regime on borrowed time?
(
and with
AFP)
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