News from Al-Madinah: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared today, Wednesday, that his nation will keep holding the Iranian regime responsible for its “hateful” actions.
“I want to be clear that we support you as Iranians and other people gather in different parts of the world. We hear your invitations to move,” Trudeau added in a tweet on Twitter on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Muhsa Amini.
An earlier statement condemning the violence that resulted in the death of missionary Amene was released on Iran by a conference of external ministries, which included representatives from Canada, France, and Germany.
Since many weeks ago, there have been protests in several parts of Iran amid allegations that the police killed Amini after detaining it on the grounds that she was wearing an unsuitable veil. The Iranian authorities deny that Amini was beaten by the police.
On the forty-fifth anniversary of the young woman’s passing, Iranians gathered in a cemetery in the Iranian region of Kurdistan today, Wednesday, and protested the severe security measures put in place to memorialise her with the lifting of the period of mourning.
Dozens of women and men who gathered in the Igi Cemetery in the town of Saqz, the town from which Muhsa is a faithful in Kurdistan in western Iran, chanted “woman, life, freedom” and “death for the dictator”, according to videos broadcast on social media.
Human rights advocates claim that the security services have advised the Amini family to avoid conducting a ceremony on the anniversary of their passing and travelling to their burial in the Kurdistan governorate.
After the remembrance of Amen’s passing on Wednesday, the Norwegian human rights group Hankao, which keeps track of human rights abuses in the Kurdistan Governorate, claimed that Iranian security forces had fired shots and used tear gas against protesters in Saqz, Amen’s hometown.
In Saqz’s Zindan Square, the police and security personnel started shooting at locals.
A source indicated that dozens of demonstrators were arrested after the shootings.
The Internet was also down in the town of Saqz at the same time.
The group had earlier claimed that the Iranian government had enforced severe security measures in the Bluej Saks. The group gave an explanation of how the security forces of Iran had taken to the streets. It claimed to have learned about a massive strike in 8 cities in western Iran.
Iran Human Rights reported that 93 people were killed in the demonstrations that erupted on September 30 as a result of reports of the rape of a police chief by a teenage girl in the bloody disturbances of the Kurdistan Governorate (West), where Amene was born, as well as Zahedan in the extreme southeast of Iran.
According to the Iranian “Tasnim” news agency, two Revolutionary Guards were slain by unidentified gunmen in Zahedan on Tuesday, raising the total number of fatal security incidents in Sistan and Baluchistan to eight.
Amnesty International claims that despite the “uncompromising harsh suppression operations,” young people participated in demonstrations on Tuesday as seen by records posted online.
Young people appear at the metro stations in Tehran, chanting “death for the dictator” and “Death to the Revolutionary Guards”.
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Canada: The Iranian government will be held responsible for its “hateful” actions.
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