Demonstrations after the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested by the customs police on September 13 in Tehran, shake the whole country and directly target the theocratic regime.
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The grandparents of Milan Haqiqi had an hour to bury his body. The 21-year-old was killed on September 21 during a demonstration in the city of Oshnaviyeh, in northwestern Iran. “The last time I had my son on the phone, he promised to send me the most beautiful photos on the street. I only received the images of his corpse, explains his father, Salim Haqiqi, who lives In Norway. My son wanted freedom and equality. With other demonstrators, he chanted: “Woman, life, freedom!” Their dispute was peaceful. “
Milan was shot. At his side, two of his friends, Sadreddin Litani and Amin Mareft, aged 27 and 16, also died. According to the Iran Human Rights organization, based in Oslo, at least fifty-seven people were killed in the demonstrations that started on September 16 throughout the country. The wave of contestation that has traveled Iran since the disappearance of Mahsa Amini, a young woman of 22 -year -old Kurdish origin, died three days after her arrest by the moral police in Tehran on September 13, is unprecedented. “What is happening should not be reduced to demonstrations, explains a sociologist who lives in Tehran and who prefers to remain anonymous. Iran is experiencing a continuous, wide and generalized phenomenon, where the protesters do not hesitate to answer the Violence of the military forces by violence. We are now witnessing an uprising. “
During the night of Sunday, 25 to Monday, September 26, rallies and clashes shaken 30 of the 31 provinces of the country, while the movement entered its tenth consecutive day. If they seem to focus mainly in the northwest, in particular in the provinces of Tehran, Kurdistan and Mazandaran, the demonstrations affect the whole country.
The death of Mahsa Amini had first provoked a general strike and marches in the Kurdish provinces, repressed by bullets. Very quickly, other cities took over. Since then, women and men have come down every day on the street. Most are young, as a demonstrator explains in Tehran. “The street is alive. Fatalism and torpor who fell on us after 2019 [the last big wave of protest during which more than 300 people were killed in three days according to Amnesty International] disappeared, she explained on Monday morning, before the Internet is cut by the authorities. The young people are stunning, girls and boys, they are of such audacity and such energy that they train with them the oldest. This time, I have hope. “Another demonstrator of Ispahan (center), where the dispute remains very contained and muzzled for the moment, shares its observation. “People are optimistic. When my mother and aunts talk to each other, they say:” It is time that we too join the demonstrators. “”
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