Teenage student allegedly dies during Iran protests after she was hit with a baton
A 17-year-old girl has reportedly been beaten to death with a police riot bat while walking home from school during protests for women’s rights in Iran.
Local protesters say teenager Sadaf Movahedi was bludgeoned last Monday night ‘by suppressive forces’ trying to keep the public under control.
They allege her family ‘is being threatened to stay silent’ and would risk their own lives if they were to speak out about the tragedy.
Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police last month.
Amini died in custody after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of Iran’s strict dress rules for women based on Islamic sharia law.
The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets.
Local protesters say teenager Sadaf Movahedi was bludgeoned last Monday night ‘by suppressive forces’ trying to keep the public under control
A protest took place in London today in support of Mahsa Amini
Sources allege her family ‘is being threatened to stay silent’ and would risk their own lives if they were to speak out about the tragedy
‘Do not come to the streets! Today is the last day of the riots,’ he said.
The ominous warning comes after one human rights group estimated at least 250 protesters had been killed during the historic anti-government demonstrations.
More than two dozen victims are said to be children. Thousands more have been arrested and punished for their involvement.
But the protests show no signs of dwindling, inflamed by public outrage over the crackdown that has cost the lives of many other young women and girls.
The revolt, by furious Iranians from all layers of society, poses one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.
On Friday, video footage on social media showed protesters calling for the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Basij militia, which has played a major role in the crackdown on demonstrators.
A protest took place in London today in support of Mahsa Amini
A child holds a banner which reads ‘freedom for Iran’ during a protest in London today
One human rights group estimated at least 250 protesters had been killed during the historic anti-government demonstrations
‘Death to the dictator,’ mourners chanted Saturday at a ceremony to mark 40 days since the slaying of a protester in the western city of Divandarreh, using a slogan aimed at supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Activism group Iran Human Rights this week called for ‘diplomatic pressure’ on Iran to be increased amid concerns of a ‘serious risk of mass killings of protesters which the UN is obligated to prevent’.
The latest Amini protests were held in defiance of warnings from Khamenei and ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi.
Female students chanting on a street in Kermanshah in the morning came under fire from the security forces, wounding some of them, including two critically, Hengaw rights group said.
Meanwhile at least another 93 people were killed during separate protests that erupted on September 30 in the southeastern city of Zahedan over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police commander, IHR says.
Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police last month.
A protest took place in London today in support of Mahsa Amini, while they’ve been going consistently in Iran since word spread of her death
A woman cuts her hair during a protest against the death of Ms Amini and the government of Iran in Istanbul
The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets
Worshippers in Zahedan came under automatic gunfire again Friday as they emerged from weekly prayers, according to the US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency.
At least 20 security personnel have been killed in the Amini protests, and at least another eight in Zahedan, according to an AFP tally based on official reports.
In other verified footage, security forces are seen firing tear gas late Friday into a residential block in the Tehran neighbourhood of Chitgar where a massive protest was held the night before.
Security forces also reportedly targeted a student dormitory overnight.
Rights groups say riot police shot Mohsen Mohammadi, 28, during protests in Divandarreh on September 19, and he died the next day at Kausar hospital in the flashpoint western city of Sanandaj.
Dozens of people who had gathered outside the same hospital late Friday to protect another wounded protester came under fire from the security forces, Hengaw said.
People gather during a protest for Ms Amini, who was allegedly arrested for not complying with strict dress code in Tehran
The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets
