Death toll rises to 35 in Iranian protests unleashed after Mahsa Amini's murder

Iranian state television raised to 35 the dead in the protests that have shaken the country for eight days in the case of Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested for not wearing the veil properly, a mandatory garment in the Persian country.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
25 September 2022 Sunday 17:39
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Death toll rises to 35 in Iranian protests unleashed after Mahsa Amini's murder

Iranian state television raised to 35 the dead in the protests that have shaken the country for eight days in the case of Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested for not wearing the veil properly, a mandatory garment in the Persian country.

“35 people, including policemen, have been killed in the riots,” IRIB state television said in its news late last night.

The protests began on Friday the 16th when the death of the young woman was known after being detained and brutally tortured by the "morality police". People took to the streets to protest against the regime and many women cut their hair, making their act of subversion viral through social networks. The police harshly repressed the concentrations. Despite this, unrest has spread throughout the country.

In recent days it is more difficult to follow what is happening, given the restrictions that the authorities are imposing on the Internet.

The government began restricting the internet on Wednesday, with mobile networks cut from afternoon to morning since then, making it difficult for protesters, journalists and activists to use social media to share photos, videos and information about what is happening. .

In turn, the Iranian Army warned that "it is ready" to help the Police deal with the protesters "to defend national security."

The military described the protests as "desperate actions of the enemy's diabolical strategy to weaken the Islamic regime", following the government version that the demonstrations are incited by the "foreign enemy" with the intervention of embassies and intelligence services of other countries. .

Despite internet outages and warnings from the authorities that they will not allow "chaos", many Iranians protested again last night in many parts of the country.

"You can't kill us all," a protester shouted at police in the northern city of Rudsar, according to an unverified video shared by activists and journalists.

Amini was arrested on Tuesday of last week by the so-called Morale Police in Tehran, where she was visiting, and was taken to a police station to attend "an hour of re-education" for wearing the veil wrong.

He died three days later in a hospital where he arrived in a coma after suffering a heart attack, which the authorities have attributed to health problems, something rejected by the family.

His death has managed to galvanize thousands of Iranians through pain and empathy, unlike other occasions when the demonstrations were reduced to fragmented social groups mobilized by the economy. The protests have had their echo around the world with demonstrations in Chile, the United States or Germany, among other countries.