Caroline Baudry, edited by Laura Laplaud 7:15 a.m., September 21, 2022
Three people died during protests in Iranian Kurdistan sparked on Saturday by the death of Mahsa Amini, detained by the morality police for "wearing inappropriate clothes".
In Iran, covering the hair is compulsory in public for a woman, but the case of this 22-year-old young woman is becoming a symbol of the regime's oppression.
Three people were killed during protests in Iranian Kurdistan sparked on Saturday by the death of a young woman in the custody of vice police, an official said on Tuesday.
Five people died according to the UN.
Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested because a lock of hair was sticking out of her veil.
She died in hospital after three days in a coma.
Her case is becoming the symbol of the oppression of women.
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From the small towns of Iranian Kurdistan in the West, where the young woman is from, to the far South and East of Iran, the demonstrations took place in 16 cities according to the BBC.
Even in Sari, a city of 300,000 inhabitants northeast of Tehran, women dance, hair in the wind, around a fire before burning there, each in their hijab, all cheered by the crowd.
This veil which hides the hair is obligatory in public.
In Iran, removing it is punishable by imprisonment.
The women parade bareheaded
But according to these numerous videos circulating on social networks, it is bareheaded that women parade among the hundreds of demonstrators, who confront the regime's police in the four corners of the country.
In Tehran, the capital, the demonstrators sing this cry: "Down with the Islamic Republic".
Farhad Khosrokhavar, former director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is a specialist in Iran.
What is new, according to him, is the starting point of this insurrection: the protest against the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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"There are women now who no longer accept and who will provoke the regime. However, a lot of demonstrators are men. There is a kind of solidarity between men and women. If this continues for a certain period, we risk witnessing the shaking of the regime, this is not yet the case at this precise moment”, he explains.
330 people would have been executed in 2021
An explosive situation, against the backdrop of a serious economic crisis and a wave of repression since ultra-conservative President Raisi came to power in 2021. That same year, at least 330 people were reportedly executed by the regime, including a increasing number of women, according to NGOs.
This is 25% more than in 2020.