At least 92 killed in Iran’s protests over the death of Mahsa Amini
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Alaina
- . October 3, 2022
- . Update: November 11, 2022 12:33 am
At least 92 people have been killed in the Islamic Republic of Iran as the security forces have cracked down on women-led protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the notorious morality police, according to the group Iran Human Rights.
Amini was pronounced dead on September 16 after she was detained for allegedly breaching Iranian rules requiring women to wear Hijabs and modest clothes. After Amini’s funeral ceremony, protests erupted across Iran, especially in Saqqez, the hometown of Amini. Her death sparked Iran’s biggest wave of popular unrest in almost three years. Human rights activists said that the morality police beat Amini because her Hijab was loose and it did not cover her hair.
Oslo-based IHR said that an additional 41 people died in clashes on Friday in Iran. IHR said that the protests were sparked by accusations a police chief in Iran’s far southeast had raped a teenage girl of the Baluch minority. A Sunni Muslim preacher, Molavi Abdol Hamid, said the community was “inflamed” after the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a police officer in the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province.
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IHR director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, urged the international community to take urgent steps against Iran to stop the killing of Iranian protesters. He said that at least 92 protesters in the Mahsa Amini rallies have been killed so far.
Reportedly, IHR has been working to assess the death toll of protesters despite internet outages and blocks on WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype and other online services.
Earlier, Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights said that Iranian security forces killed many protesters and they were shot by the security forces during demonstrations in Iran’s Kurdish region.
Earlier, the UN’s Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, issued a statement and called for an independent investigation.
