Iran’s judiciary has charged more than 125 individuals in connection with the protests that followed the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini last September, according to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website yesterday and a website cited by court officials. that 60 people were charged in Tehran and 65 people. Others in Hormozgan province (south) were arrested for participating in what he called “riots” that occurred recently in connection with protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Amini on September 16. , after she was arrested by the vice police for not following the dress code in Iran.
It comes at a time when at least 108 people have been killed in a crackdown that Iran has been waging for more than three weeks against demonstrations across the country, according to Iran’s Oslo Human Rights Organization.
Iranian security forces also killed at least 93 people in separate clashes in the town of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchistan (southeast) province, the organization added.
Iran witnessed protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, three days after she was arrested by the vice police in Tehran, and violence erupted in Zahedan on September 30 during violent protests following reports of a teenage girl being raped by a police chief in the province.
Human rights organizations have expressed concern about the scale of the crackdown in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, the region where Amini is from in western Iran.
“The international community must prevent more killings in Kurdistan by adopting an immediate response,” Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam, director of the Human Rights Organization in Iran, said yesterday.
The organization added that its investigation into the level of “repression” in Kurdistan has been hampered by internet restrictions and warned of “inevitable bloody crackdown” on demonstrators in the western province.
And “the city of Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province has witnessed massive protests and bloody crackdowns over the past three days,” the organization said, adding that its announced death toll does not include those killed during that period.
