A month after the death of Mahsa Amini, the outrage in Iran continues

These are the main events that followed the death on September 16 of the young Mahsa Aminiafter being arrested by the morality police in Tehran.

According to the NGO Iranian Human Rights (IHR)based in Norway, at least 108 people died in the repression of the demonstrations triggered after the death of the young woman.

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In coma

On September 15, human rights advocates report that a 22-year-old Iranian woman is in a coma after being detained in Tehran on September 13 by the morality police, accused of breaking the strict dress code for women in the Islamic Republic.

According to the police, the woman suffered “a heart problem”.

Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, order to open an investigation.

Amini He dies on September 16 in the hospital. Several activists say that he received a fatal blow to the head.

For their part, the police insist that “there was no physical contact” with the woman. State television broadcasts excerpts from a video filmed at a police station that supports this version.

The front page of the Iranian newspaper Hafteh Sobh with a photograph of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic’s “morality police” two days ago. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (ATTA KENARE /)

manifestations

Amini She was buried on the 17th in her hometown of Saqqez, in the province of Kurdistan (west). Security forces disperse a demonstration with tear gas.

Many personalities express their outrage on social networks.

In the days that follow, other concentrations take place, also in Tehran and Mashhad.

“Transferred late to hospital”

The father of the victim declares on the 19th that the police video was “cut” and assures that his daughter was “transferred late to hospital”.

On the 20th, an Iranian parliamentarian, in unusual statements, criticizes “the morality police” and consider that “It does not achieve any result, except to damage the country.”

Iranian protesters take to the streets of the capital Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini, days after he died in police custody. (Photo by AFP) (-/)

Instagram and WhatsApp blocked

At night, protests take place in more than a dozen cities. In images on social media you can see women burning their veils.

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On the 22nd, the authorities block access to Instagram and WhatsAppthe two most used applications in Iran.

The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom announce economic sanctions against the morality police and various security officials.

counter-demonstrations

Thousands of people, following a call from the authorities, take to the streets on the 23rd to defend the use of the veil.

On the 25th, the president Raisi calls on the security forces to act “firmly” against the protesters. The head of the judiciary threatens not to show “any leniency”.

On the 26th, the authorities report that they have arrested more than 1,200 people, described as “troublemakers”, including activists, lawyers and journalists, according to NGOs. The UN urges Tehran to “maximum restraint”.

On the 28th, the family of Mahsa Amini files a lawsuit against the “authors of his arrest”.

A child holds a poster during a demonstration in support of the Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, on October 1, 2022 in Madrid, after her death in Iran. (Photo by ÓSCAR DEL POZO / AFP) (OSCAR DEL POZO /)

Khamenei accuses the US

On October 2, violent clashes break out in Tehran between students and security forces at the Sharif University of Technology, the most important in the country.

A week later, numerous high school students demonstrate, removing their veils and shouting anti-regime slogans.

Supreme guide Ali Khamenei accuses the US, Israel and their “agents” of fomenting the protests.

Cause of death: disease

Amini’s death is due to a brain disease, and not a stroke, according to a medical report published on the 7th by the Islamic Republic.

On the 8th, a group that supports the protests hacks into a state television channel and shows a message against Khamenei.

Women chant slogans and hold banners bearing the image of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a demonstration denouncing her death by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds in front of the UN offices in Arbil, the capital of Iran. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (SAFIN HAMED /)

strikes

On the 10th, the mobilization reaches the oil sector, with strikes and concentrations in the petrochemical plants of Asaluyeh (southwest), Abadán (west) or Bushehr (south), according to IHR.

On the 12th, lawyers join the protests, under the slogan of the demonstrators “Woman, life, freedom”, in Tehran.

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The 27 countries of the European Union agree to punish the Iranian officials involved in the repression.

Fire and altercations in a prison

On the 16th, at the end of a new day of demonstrations, a fire and several clashes broke out in the Evin prison, in Tehran, with an official balance of four dead detainees and more than 60 wounded. Many political and foreign prisoners are held in this prison, feared in Iran.

Source: Elcomercio