In total, six people died in several days of trouble. Anger rumbles since the authorities announced the death of the young woman after her arrest by the Police of manners.
Le Monde with AFP
Anger rumbled in Iran since the authorities announced on Friday the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest by the police of the mores responsible for enforcing a strict dress code for women. Two people were killed in the Iranian province of Kermanchahan during demonstrations, the region’s prosecutor, Shahram Karami, quoted by the Fars news agency.
Furthermore, Kurdistan police commander Ali Azadi announced the death of another person in the province, according to the Tasnim agency. In total, six people died in several days of trouble, according to the official assessment.
“We are sure that this was done by counter-revolutionary agents because these people were targeted with weapons not used by Iranian police,” added Shahram Karami. He also declared that twenty-five people, including some members of the police forces, had been injured during demonstrations.
Ismail Zarei Koosha, the Governor of Kurdistan, the province of origin of Mahsa Amini where the troubles started, said on Tuesday that three people had been killed during uprisings in the province, without specifying when.
Demonstrations took place during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in fifteen cities of Iran, including the capital Tehran and other major cities, according to the Irna State Agency. During the fifth night of street rallies, the police used tear gas and arrests to disperse crowds up to 1,000 people, the agency said. The demonstrators blocked the streets, launched stones on the security forces, burnt down on police vehicles and trash cans and chanted antigenmental slogans, she added.
The Iranian president denounces one ” Two weights, two measures “Western about women’s rights
On Wednesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi also mentioned the subject on the occasion of his speech before the United Nations General Assembly accusing the West of having “two weights, two measures” concerning rights women. “There is […] attention paid only on one side and not everywhere,” said the head of state, evoking the dead of women of indigenous peoples in Canada or Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories. “This shows that the place of the accused and the defender should not be judged only in terms of what is presented by some,” he added.
Tuesday, during his speech to the UN general assembly, the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, had paid tribute to the gallery to Mahsa Amini, calling for “the end of the abuses on the part of ‘they are “. Wednesday morning, during an interview with the France-Presse agency, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, James Cleverly, estimated that the demonstrations following the death of the young woman showed that “another path” was possible for Iran. “Iranian leaders should notice that the population is unhappy with the management they have taken. They can take another path,” he insisted.