The country has been the scene of protests since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini (22), arrested by the morality police for violating the dress code of the Islamic Republic.
At least 326 protesters have been killed in the crackdown on the protest movement that has rocked the country since September, the NGO said on Saturday. Iran Human Rightsbased in Oslo.
Iran has been the scene of protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, arrested three days earlier for allegedly breaking the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
The protest, part of the rejection of the dress restrictions imposed on women and the indignation raised by the death of the young woman, evolved into a movement directed against the theocracy in power in Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
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“At least 326 people, including 43 children and 25 women, have been killed by security forces during protests across the country“, considers IHR in a press release on its website, specifying that it is a “minimum“. IHR specifies, in fact, that it did not take into account “a large number of reported deathswhich she is still checking.
The latest death toll from the non-governmental organization was 304 a week ago. IHR includes those killed in the province of Sistan-Balochistan (southeast), bordering Pakistan, or at least 123 victims, according to its count.
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Of these, more than 90 died on September 30 – a Friday since dubbed “Bloody Friday” by activists – during a demonstration in Zahedan, provincial capital, to protest against the rape of a teenager. of 15 years attributed to a senior police officer in the port city of Tchabahar.
IHR Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called on the international community to act to end the repression in Iran. “The establishment of an international investigation and accountability mechanism by the UN will both facilitate the process of holding perpetrators accountable in the future and increase the cost of the Islamic Republic’s continued repression.“, he said.