Since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, arrested three days earlier by the morality police for allegedly breaking the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic, Iran has been the scene of demonstrations.

The protest, which grew from rejection of dress restrictions on women and outrage over the death of young Mahsa Amini, has evolved into a movement against the theocracy that has ruled the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. last assessment of the NGO Iran Human Rights communicated on November 12, at least 326 demonstrators were killed in the repression of the movement.

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Olivier JUSZCZAK

  • Iran has been the scene of protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, arrested three days earlier by vice squad for violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code.

  • The protest, part of the rejection of the dress restrictions imposed on women and the indignation raised by the death of the young woman, evolved into a movement directed against the theocracy in power in Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979.

  • To the initial slogan of "women, life, freedom" were added, over the course of demonstrations, however harshly repressed, slogans openly directed against the Islamic Republic founded in 1979.

  • Despite a warning from the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic and a bloody crackdown, students continue to gather in several Iranian cities.

  • “Each death is followed by a thousand people!

    chanted protesters at the funeral of a protester in Arak, southwest of the capital, on October 29.

  • The Iranian authorities denounce these protests as "riots" encouraged by Western countries, mainly the United States, Iran's sworn enemy.

  • Dozens of people, mainly protesters but also members of the security forces, have been killed since the start of the protest, according to the Iranian authorities, who do not provide a precise or overall assessment.

  • More than 2,000 people have been charged, according to Iranian justice.

    Human rights organizations abroad report 15,000 arrests, a figure disputed by the authorities.

  • Including journalists, students, lawyers and more than 500 civil society activists.

  • “At least 326 people, including 43 children and 25 women, have been killed by security forces during protests across the country,” Iran Human Rights, an Oslo-based NGO, said on November 12 in a statement on its website, stating that this is a "minimum".

  • In Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron received Iranian activists and hailed the "revolution they are leading".

  • "Help us to immortalize #MahsaAmini and our fight against this brutal regime", wrote on Twitter Masih Alinejad, one of the Iranian activists received at the Elysee Palace on Friday.

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