Masoud Steachi, a spokesman for the Iranian court, stated today, Tuesday, that more than a thousand charges connected to the riots in the country have lately been charged, coinciding with the ongoing protests in several Iranian towns.
Iran has been experiencing demonstrations ever since a young woman named Muhsa Amini died while being detained by ethics police on September 16 due to her “inappropriate clothing,” posing the biggest challenge to the government since the 1979 revolution.
Since the protests began, more than sixty Kurdish individuals have died, according to the Hangao Human Rights Organization in Iran. The organisation also claimed that around 5,000 other people have been hurt by direct gunfire from security forces.
About a week ago, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that the head of the judiciary in Tehran, the capital of Iran, had stated that about a thousand people had been charged with rioting and would be publicly judged this week. At the time, the government was stepping up its efforts to put an end to the demonstrations, which had been ongoing for more than six weeks following the death of the young woman Muhsa Amini during the seizure of the Ethics Police last month.
The Revolutionary Guards requested that the demonstrators avoid the streets today, a Saturday. Iranian leaders characterised the demonstrations as a plot by the Islamic Republic’s adversaries, particularly the United States and Israel. Hassan Hassan Zadeh, the “Revolutionary Guards” commander in Tehran, reported that 14 of the “involved elements” in the death of a major Basij force member west of Tehran had been detained by police and “Revolutionary Guards” units.
Participants in these rallies came from all social groups, with women and students taking centre stage. Women with their veil burnt during these demonstrations.
The semi -official Tasnim news agency, quoting the chief judge in the Tehran region, said that about a thousand people “who have carried out sabotage in recent events will be tried, including the attack on or killing security guards, and setting fire to public property” in a revolutionary court.
She continued by saying that the cases will be held in public and that 277 radicals in the Iranian parliament and judiciary were asked to “deal severely” with the protestors. According to Reuters, they issued a statement in which they demanded that the judiciary “deal decisively with the perpetrators of these crimes and with all those who help in crimes and instigate riots.”
To put an end to the unrest, the Iranian government has begun a brutal suppression effort.
Since the death of the Kurdish young woman Muhsa Amini while she was being held by the “Ethics Police” in Tehran under the pretext of wearing a “bad veil,” according to the Human Rights Activists in Iran (Hranna), the death toll among protestors has risen to 319. She sketched 136 localities and 135 universities that saw protests in her daily data, which were released late on Sunday to 14,823 inmates in the protests.
Iranian judicial system: over a thousand “riot”-related accusations
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