PARIS: Greater than 75 folks have been killed within the Iranian authorities’ crackdown in opposition to unrest sparked by the demise of Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini following her arrest by morality police, a rights group mentioned Monday.
The Iranian authorities’ official demise toll, in the meantime, remained at 41, together with a number of members of the safety forces.
Officers mentioned Monday they arrested greater than 1,200 folks because the dragnet widens in opposition to the nationwide demonstrations over Amini’s demise following her arrest for allegedly breaching the nation’s strict guidelines on hijab headscarves and modest clothes.
Protesters took to the streets once more on Monday night time — as they’ve each night time since Amini’s demise on September 16 — in Tehran and elsewhere, witnesses informed AFP.
Tehran crowds shouted “demise to the dictator”, calling for the tip of the greater than three-decade rule of supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83.
Video shot from a number of flooring above avenue stage, purportedly within the metropolis of Tabriz, confirmed folks protesting to the sound of tear gasoline canisters being fired by safety forces, in pictures printed by Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR).
IHR mentioned a minimum of 76 folks have been killed within the crackdown in Iran, up from a earlier depend of 57.
Ladies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, twirled their headscarves above their heads in defiance whereas automotive drivers sounded their horns in solidarity, in video shared by Hengaw, a Kurdish rights organisation likewise primarily based in Norway.
Tensions with Western powers grew as France issued its “strongest condemnation” over the “violent repression” by safety forces, Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador and Canada introduced sanctions — a day after the European Union deplored the crackdown and Tehran known as within the British and Norwegian envoys.
“We name on the worldwide group to decisively and unitedly take sensible steps to cease the killing and torture of protesters,” mentioned IHR’s director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
Video footage and demise certificates obtained by IHR confirmed that “stay ammunition is being immediately fired at protesters,” he alleged.
Iranian riot police in black physique armour have crushed protesters with truncheons in operating avenue battles, and college students have torn down giant footage of the supreme chief and his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in current video footage printed by AFP.
Amnesty Worldwide on Monday reported that Hadis Najafi, a 22-year-old protester, was killed on September 21 in Karaj. “Safety forces fired birdshot at her in shut vary, hitting her within the face, neck and chest,” the rights group mentioned, corroborating earlier social media variations of occasions.
Protesters have hurled rocks, torched police automobiles and set public buildings ablaze.
Authorities say about 450 folks have been arrested in northern Mazandaran province, on prime of over 700 reported Saturday in neighbouring Gilan, together with dozens in a number of different areas.
Twenty journalists are amongst these arrested, in accordance with the Committee to Defend Journalists.
“Rioters have attacked authorities buildings and broken public property,” Mazandaran’s chief prosecutor Mohammad Karimi informed official information company IRNA, charging that they have been steered by “international anti-revolutionary brokers”.
Tehran police have been deployed “24 hours a day” and lots of haven’t slept, mentioned the Iranian judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, thanking exhausted officers and the capital’s police chief throughout a go to to their headquarters Sunday, in a video posted by Mizan On-line.
Ejei earlier harassed “the necessity for decisive motion with out leniency” in opposition to the protest instigators.
However a robust Shiite cleric lengthy aligned with the nation’s ultra-conservative institution urged authorities to take a softer line.
“The leaders should hearken to the calls for of the folks, resolve their issues and present sensitivity to their rights,” mentioned Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani on Sunday.
Regardless of sweeping web restrictions, together with blocks on Instagram and WhatsApp, new movies shared broadly on social media confirmed protests Sunday night time in Tehran and cities together with Yazd, Isfahan and Bushehr on the Persian Gulf.
Reviews mentioned that college students at Tehran and Al-Zahra Universities and the Sharif Institute have gone on strike and urged professors to hitch them.
The EU’s international coverage chief Josep Borrell on Sunday slammed Iran for its “widespread and disproportionate use of pressure in opposition to nonviolent protestors”.
He mentioned the EU would “proceed to think about all of the choices at its disposal … to deal with the killing of Mahsa Amini” and the state response to the protests in Iran, a rustic already below punishing sanctions over its nuclear programme.
Tehran, for its half, mentioned Sunday it had summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest what it known as an “invitation to riots” by London-based Farsi language media, and Norway’s envoy over the parliamentary speaker’s “unconstructive feedback” on the protests.
The US final week imposed sanctions in opposition to the morality police, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned on Monday that his personal nation would comply with swimsuit as a part of a sanctions package deal “on dozens of people and entities”.
The Iranian authorities’ official demise toll, in the meantime, remained at 41, together with a number of members of the safety forces.
Officers mentioned Monday they arrested greater than 1,200 folks because the dragnet widens in opposition to the nationwide demonstrations over Amini’s demise following her arrest for allegedly breaching the nation’s strict guidelines on hijab headscarves and modest clothes.
Protesters took to the streets once more on Monday night time — as they’ve each night time since Amini’s demise on September 16 — in Tehran and elsewhere, witnesses informed AFP.
Tehran crowds shouted “demise to the dictator”, calling for the tip of the greater than three-decade rule of supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83.
Video shot from a number of flooring above avenue stage, purportedly within the metropolis of Tabriz, confirmed folks protesting to the sound of tear gasoline canisters being fired by safety forces, in pictures printed by Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR).
IHR mentioned a minimum of 76 folks have been killed within the crackdown in Iran, up from a earlier depend of 57.
Ladies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, twirled their headscarves above their heads in defiance whereas automotive drivers sounded their horns in solidarity, in video shared by Hengaw, a Kurdish rights organisation likewise primarily based in Norway.
Tensions with Western powers grew as France issued its “strongest condemnation” over the “violent repression” by safety forces, Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador and Canada introduced sanctions — a day after the European Union deplored the crackdown and Tehran known as within the British and Norwegian envoys.
“We name on the worldwide group to decisively and unitedly take sensible steps to cease the killing and torture of protesters,” mentioned IHR’s director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
Video footage and demise certificates obtained by IHR confirmed that “stay ammunition is being immediately fired at protesters,” he alleged.
Iranian riot police in black physique armour have crushed protesters with truncheons in operating avenue battles, and college students have torn down giant footage of the supreme chief and his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in current video footage printed by AFP.
Amnesty Worldwide on Monday reported that Hadis Najafi, a 22-year-old protester, was killed on September 21 in Karaj. “Safety forces fired birdshot at her in shut vary, hitting her within the face, neck and chest,” the rights group mentioned, corroborating earlier social media variations of occasions.
Protesters have hurled rocks, torched police automobiles and set public buildings ablaze.
Authorities say about 450 folks have been arrested in northern Mazandaran province, on prime of over 700 reported Saturday in neighbouring Gilan, together with dozens in a number of different areas.
Twenty journalists are amongst these arrested, in accordance with the Committee to Defend Journalists.
“Rioters have attacked authorities buildings and broken public property,” Mazandaran’s chief prosecutor Mohammad Karimi informed official information company IRNA, charging that they have been steered by “international anti-revolutionary brokers”.
Tehran police have been deployed “24 hours a day” and lots of haven’t slept, mentioned the Iranian judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, thanking exhausted officers and the capital’s police chief throughout a go to to their headquarters Sunday, in a video posted by Mizan On-line.
Ejei earlier harassed “the necessity for decisive motion with out leniency” in opposition to the protest instigators.
However a robust Shiite cleric lengthy aligned with the nation’s ultra-conservative institution urged authorities to take a softer line.
“The leaders should hearken to the calls for of the folks, resolve their issues and present sensitivity to their rights,” mentioned Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani on Sunday.
Regardless of sweeping web restrictions, together with blocks on Instagram and WhatsApp, new movies shared broadly on social media confirmed protests Sunday night time in Tehran and cities together with Yazd, Isfahan and Bushehr on the Persian Gulf.
Reviews mentioned that college students at Tehran and Al-Zahra Universities and the Sharif Institute have gone on strike and urged professors to hitch them.
The EU’s international coverage chief Josep Borrell on Sunday slammed Iran for its “widespread and disproportionate use of pressure in opposition to nonviolent protestors”.
He mentioned the EU would “proceed to think about all of the choices at its disposal … to deal with the killing of Mahsa Amini” and the state response to the protests in Iran, a rustic already below punishing sanctions over its nuclear programme.
Tehran, for its half, mentioned Sunday it had summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest what it known as an “invitation to riots” by London-based Farsi language media, and Norway’s envoy over the parliamentary speaker’s “unconstructive feedback” on the protests.
The US final week imposed sanctions in opposition to the morality police, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned on Monday that his personal nation would comply with swimsuit as a part of a sanctions package deal “on dozens of people and entities”.
