Some 300 people demonstrated on Keshavarz Boulevard for the death of Mahsa Amini, located in the center of the capital, where they threw stones at the Police and burned containers, according to Fars, an agency close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The Iranian Police dispersed this Monday, September 7, with abundant riot gear, the protests in Tehran over the death of Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested for improperly wearing the Islamic veil.
The Iranian agency Fars reported that police officers resorted to force in the face of the capital’s protests in which the demonstrators chanted slogans against the Iranian leaders and women removed the veil, which is mandatory in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Some 300 people demonstrated on Keshavarz Boulevard, located in the center of the capital, where they threw stones at the police and burned containers, according to Fars, an agency close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Iranian journalists shared videos on social networks in which they observed strong clashes between protesters and police officers, supported by “basijis” (Islamic volunteers), but their authenticity has not been verified. In some of them shots are heard.
According to videos on social networks, protests took place in more parts of the capital with slogans such as “death to the oppressor”, “optional veil” and “enough is enough”.
Iranian state media did not mention injuries in these clashes. Internet access was restricted in various parts of the country.
“There has been a significant internet drop in Tehran,” said the NetBlocks platform, which monitors user connectivity and internet censorship.
Iranian youth have taken over the center of Tehran, the country’s capital, shouting for freedom. The regime has knocked down the internet connection. pic.twitter.com/kMMeqJuB9u
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The protests began timidly on the 16th after learning of the death of Amini, 22, and have been repeated until Monday, growing larger and in more parts of the country, especially in the Iranian Kurdistan province, where she was originally from. the deceased
The young woman was arrested on Tuesday by the so-called Morale Police in Tehranwhere she was visiting, and transferred to a police station to attend “an hour of re-education” for wearing the veil wrong.
Hours later she was admitted to Kasra Hospital in the capital in a coma after suffering a heart attack.
The Police then stated that the young woman “suddenly suffered a heart problem” and published a video in which Amini is supposedly seen falling to the ground while talking to an agent at the police station, but the family has not confirmed that it is her. .
The parents of the young woman have denied that she suffered from any type of illness, contrary to what some official Iranian media have published.
Tehran Police Chief Hossein Rahimi on Monday described Amini’s death as “an unfortunate incident” and said it is false that the young woman was beaten or ill-treated in police custody.
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الهی که سر خودتون و عزیزتون بیاد.#Mahsa_Amini pic.twitter.com/fssCQxSdcF— لیلیثِ خجالتـے (@0_toti_0) September 17, 2022
“It is an unfortunate incident and we hope there will be no similar incidents,” Rahimi told a news conference.
The government of Iran’s ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisí has in recent months increased pressure on women to comply with strict dress rules.
The veil has been mandatory since the 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini, who declared that without it women were “naked”.
President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi arrived in New York on Monday to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Iranian president had been seen off at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport by the adviser to the Leader of the Revolution, and the First Vice President, Mohamad Mojber, as well as by several ministers and members of his cabinet.
With information from EFE
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