Justice has charged more than 300 people, bringing more than a thousand the official number of charges after more than a month of demonstrations throughout the country. At least 250 people were killed, according to NGOs.
Le Monde
Forty days after the death of Mahsa Amini, the demonstrations continue in Iran. Thousands of people gathered in the cemetery of the city of Saghez, Wednesday October 26, at the end of the traditional period of mourning of forty days, around the tomb of the young Iranian Kurd. The 22 -year -old student died on September 16, three days after her arrest for offense to the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic which forces women to wear the veil.
“Part of the crowd was ready for confrontation” with the police, “one of the participants who hoisted the Iraqi Kurdistan flag”, adds the ISNA news agency, close to power . The situation was “a little tense” in the city after the return of the crowd but “no confrontation occurred in the afternoon,” she said. “Some had the intention of attacking an army center”, but they “were dispersed by people present at the ceremony”.
“Following tensions and dispersed clashes that occurred after the ceremony”, internet access was blocked for “security reasons” in Saghez, adds the news agency.
Three hundred people charged
Earlier in the day, Iranian justice announced that it had charged more than three hundred people, bringing more than a thousand the official number of charges related to demonstrations in the country.
The death in detention of Mahsa Amini sparked a wave of demonstrations, which continued despite an increasingly deadly repression, with at least 250 dead and thousands of arrests according to the rights groups of the rights of the ‘man.
In recent days, Iran had reported the indictment of more than six hundred and thirty people among the demonstrators in Tehran, Kurdistan (West), Khouzestan (South West), Qazvin and Ispahan (center). At least four people have been accused of an offense liable to the death penalty while others were continued in particular for “security attack”, “propaganda” against power and “assault against the police “.