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Iranian Protest Over the “Government Murder” of Mahsa Amini Continues

by Zamaneh Media
September 24, 2022
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A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran shows an Iranian police officer (C) raising a baton to disperse demonstrators during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran on September 19, 2022. - Fresh protests broke out on September 19 in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the "morality police" that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. Public anger has grown since authorities on Friday announced the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a hospital after three days in a coma, following her arrest by Tehran's morality police during a visit to the capital on September 13. (Photo by AFP)

Demonstrators have taken to the streets of tens of major cities in Iran for eight consecutive days since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was killed while in the custody of Iran’s hijab police.

At least fifty people have been killed in the recent protests in several Iranian cities, according to Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) based in Norway. Iranian media close to the state are confirming that at least 35 have been killed including government security forces. Zamaneh Media independently confirms the identities of eight protesters killed by government forces.

Activists and human rights groups outside of Iran are concerned for the safety of protestors, especially in consideration of Iran’s recent shutdown of the internet. The Internet has been either completely cut off in areas where protests have been ongoing or it has been slow in speed, making it difficult for the protesters to communicate with each other and with the outside world. The Iranian state during the 2019–2020 protests known as the Bloody November employed the same strategy of cutting off the internet so that the world would not get information about the atrocities carried out by government forces.

Security forces have arrested dozens of citizens, student activists, women’s rights activists, as well as known civil and political activists in several cities of Iran. Anyone who has the capacity to mobilize or is connected to a grassroots is now a target of Iranian security forces. Families of the detainees have gathered outside prisons in their local hometowns and the government is slow in providing information on the whereabouts of the arrestees.

There is still no information about the fate of many of those arrested during the recent protests. Arrests continued on Saturday, September 24, eight days after the protests started.

The protests against the government’s murder of Mahsa started on Friday, September 16, after the medical team at Tehran’s Kasra hospital pronounced Mahsa dead, protest shaped in front of Kasra hospital in Tehran. The protest continued after Mahsa’s funeral in her hometown of Saqqez when mourners organized a peaceful rally outside the city’s governor’s office. Security forces outside the office responded to protestors with tear gas and opened fire. Now the protest has spread to most of Iran’s 31 provinces.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died after falling into a coma following her detention by morality police enforcing hijab in Tehran. She was visiting the capital with her family from Saqqez.

The Tehran police claim Mahsa’s death resulted from a prior heart and brain condition that led to cardiac arrest and a stroke; however, in conversation with Zamaneh, Mahsa’s family states that she was healthy and had no prior health conditions.

Independent women, labor and civil rights organizations express that the murder of Mahsa is “the result of structural and systematic violence against women.”

The government officials in state media were at first stating accountability and the need for an investigation however, recently, the tone of government officials has become alarming, and the range of pressures and threats has also expanded.

The Revolutionary Guards, the Military, the Armed Forces, and governmental authorities, including the Minister of Interior, and the Ministry of Information, threatened the protesters by publishing various statements. On Saturday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi vowed to take action against protesters. 

After the state-run Friday prayer in Tehran, several hundreds of state supporters attended a state-organized pro-hijab rally intended to show force. In the past week, the internet has been disrupted in many cities of Iran, and social media platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp have also been blocked in Iran. 

Protests have spread to most Iranian cities resulting in widespread arrests. The number of protestors that have been arrested in recent days is unprecedented. The families had announced in the past days that despite the follow-up, they do not know about the fate, place of detention, and charges against the detainees. 

Several journalists, including at least three female journalists, have been detained over coverage of the protests and the death of Mahsa Amini.

Photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, Nilofar Hamedi who reported on Amini’s case, and Fatemeh Rajabi, another journalist have been arrested. The International Federation of Journalists confirmed the arrest of twelve journalists.

The table below shows the names and occupations of the people arrested in the last seven days. The list is not comprehensive and will be updated:

NameOccupation / ActivismPlace of Arrest
Meisam JolaniTurk Activist (Azeri)Ardebil
Mohammad JolaniTurk Activist (Azeri)Ardebil
Asgar AkbarzadehTurk Activist (Azeri)Ardebil
Saeid SadeghifarTurk Activist (Azeri)Ardebil
Abbas BagheriUniversity lecturer and reformist political activistGolestan
Ayub HaghighiMartyr Milan Haghighi’s uncleOshnovieh
Hooman MohammadizadehStudent union activist at Chamran UniversityAhwaz
Mohammad ArabHead of Islamic Culture and Civilization Association at Noushirvani University of BabolBabol
Masoud KordpourJournalist at Mokrian News AgencyBookan
Khosro KordpourJournalist at Mokrian News AgencyBookan
Leila SalehiFeminist activistBijar
Abdolrahman Mohammadi ArshadEnvironmental activistPiranshar
Ahmadreza AfsharGraphics student at the Islamic Art University of TabrizTabriz
Behrooz ShirbeigiSociology BA student at Allameh Tabatabaei UniverstyTehran
Mahan Gachpazan EydgahiHead of Student Union at the University of TehranTehran
Majid EmamverdiLaw student at the University of TehranTehran
Mohammad NouriEconomics MA student at the University of TehranTehran
Sahand MortazaviChemical engineering student at the University of TehranTehran
Farhad Shjoa HeidariSocial work MA student at the Allameh Tabatabaei UniversityTehran
Hadi Mehdi BagherzadehStudentTehran
Zahra KashkakiStudentTehran
Kamyar SharifiSocial policy student at the University of TehranTehran
Bardia ShakoorifardEconomic student at the University of TehranTehran
Mehrdad ArandanEconomic student at Allameh Tabatabaei UniversityTehran
Mehdi BagherzadehCinema student at Azad University (Tehran Unit)Tehran
Amin TohidiStudent at Allameh Tabatabaei UniversityTehran
Shahoo BayazidiStudent at Allameh Tabatabaei UniversityTehran
Mahsa AbdollahzadehStudent at the University of TehranTehran
Mina MohammadiStudent at the University of TehranTehran
Reyhaneh MaroufSociology Student at the University of TehranTehran
Yalda MoayyeriPhotojournalistTehran
Niloufar HamediJournalistTehran
Shadi AzhdariPhilosophy student at Shahid Beheshti UniversityTehran
Mohammadreza Jalaeipourpolitical activistTehran
Majid Tavakkolipolitical activistTehran
Azin SaeidinasabEnvironmental sciences studentTehran
تکراریTehran
Mobina MohammadiStudent at the University of TehranTehran
Yousef TeymouriSociology Student at Shahid Beheshti UniversityTehran
Maedeh DelbariStudent at Al-Zahra UniversityTehran
Iman BehpasandJournalistTehran
Sajad RamezanzadehTehran
Hossein RonaghiPolitical activistTehran
Siavash HayatiSpokesperson of the Councelling Assembly of Yaresan Civil Activists and secretary of the Kurdish United FrontDalahou, Kermanshah
Khaled HosseiniWorker activistSanandaj
Rojhan GhaderiPainterSanandaj
Jhina Modarres KarajiFeminist activistSanandaj
Reza SharifehCivil activistSanandaj
Narges HosseiniA Revolution Street GirlKashan
Rizan AhmadiFeminist activistKurdistan
Karamollah SoleimaniGraduate and former student activist at Kashan UniversityGachsaran
Mojgan KavoussiCivil activistMazandaran
Khabat (Xabat) VeisiEnglish language studentMarivan
Evin RastiFeminist activistMarivan
Alireza SaberianHead of Islamic Association at the Medical Sciences University of MashhadMashhad
Mansoureh MousaviFeminist activist, writer and sociologistMashhad
Masoud GhalandariCivil activistYasouj
Mohsen GhalandariCivil activistYasouj
Kourosh JaliliCivil activistYasouj
Amin HeydarianCivil activistYasouj
Yasser FarrokhzadCivil activistYasouj
Hossein FatehiCivil activist
Hanieh DaemiCivil activist (Atena Daemi’s sister)
Faranak RafieiFeminist activist
Baran SaediFeminist activist
Mahrou HedayatiFeminist activist
Azadeh Jema’atiFeminist activist
Bahar ZangibandFeminist activist
Golshin MohammadianFeminist activist
Alireza KhoshbakhtJournalist and political activist
Zahra TohidiPolitical activist
Ruhollah NakhaeiPolitical activist
Hadi TohidiPolitical activist

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