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Iranian journalist arrested for taking interview of death row inmates’ kins: Report

January 6, 2023, 5:00 pm

Iranian authorities arrested a journalist who published interviews with families of death row inmates sentenced in connection with anti-hijab protests, a report said.

“Mehdi Beikoghli, head of the political service at Etemad daily, was arrested last night,” the newspaper said on its website, AFP reported.

Mahsa Amini was killed following her arrest by Iran’s controversial morality police for not wearing her hijab properly.

The arrested journalist interviewed several families of people sentenced to death over the protests, AFP reported.

“His wife wrote on Twitter that Mehdi’s cellphone, computer and personal belongings were seized during the arrest,” Etemad said.

More than 200 people, including members of the security forces, have died since the protests started, according to a statement made last month by Iran’s top security agency. More than 2,000 people have been charged, according to judicial authorities.

27-year old Iranian man shot dead for celebrating team’s exit from the World Cup

December 1, 2022, 3:29 pm

An Iranian activist was shot dead by the authorities in the city of Bandar-e Anzali for celebrating the team’s loss to the United States and exit from the World Cup, said a rights group.

According to the human rights group, Mehran Samak, 27, was shot dead while he was honking his car horn in Bandar Anzali, a city on the Caspian Sea coast. Since the country has been facing mass protest following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custordy, there has been mixed response regarding the country’s exit from World Cup. In order to fight for justice, many people have refused to support their team against the government’s crackdown on the protest which also resulted in the death of 448 people.

Samak “was targeted directly and shot in the head by security forces … following the defeat of the national team against America”, said the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR). However, no official statement by the authorities in this matter has been released yet.

Few hours after the incident, Iranian international midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi, who played for US posted a picture of him Samak and describing him as his “childhood teammate”. Saeid took to his instagram and expressed his sorrow by the Iranian officials. He shared that Samak had played in the US match and was from Bandar Anzali.

“After last night’s bitter loss, the news of your passing set fire to my heart,” said Ezatolahi on Instagram. “Some day the masks will fall, the truth will be laid bare. “This is not what our youth deserve. This is not what our nation deserves.” He further said.

The players in their first clash against England in the support of protestors did not sing the national anthem. However they did sing it while playing against Wales and USA clashes.

Mahsa Amini was not killed, but passed away: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister

November 24, 2022, 4:27 pm

Mahsa Amini was not killed, but passed away, said Iran’s deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani. Amini’s death in police custody triggered a massive protest across the country. Kani while defending his own government blamed the western countries for creating “baseless and fallacious atmosphere” and responsible for rising tension in Iran.

“Mahsa Amini was not killed, she passed away. We have seen the atmosphere created by some Western media with regard to the development in Iran. This atmosphere is baseless and fallacious. We are seeing the rights of the Iranian nation are violated by these western powers,” said Kani.

Ali Bagheri Kani is on a visit to India has said that a panel under the interior ministry has been formed to investigate the deaths due to protests in Iran. The minister also said that due to protests that were prompted by the death of Amini, 50 police officers lost their lives and several other got injured.

“The western powers don’t talk about the people of Afghanistan, Palestine or Yemen. They don’t denounce or condemn these actions. Who are the real killers of these people?”

Bgheri on his India visit met with External affairs minister S. Jaishankar and discussed bilateral cooperation and regional issues.

“Yesterday, I held a very constructive meeting with minister Jaishankar. In that meeting, we discussed the most important bilateral relations issues. Both sides stressed that in the era ahead, we need to strengthen our cooperation and consultations in order to promote our bilateral relations and continue our engagement with each other,” Kani said.

Iranian journalists who broke news of Mahsa Amini’s death labelled as CIA agents

October 30, 2022, 1:48 pm

The two journalists who initially reported Mahsa Amini’s death in Iran at the age of 21 have been blamed for being CIA agents. Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi broke the news of Mahsa Amini’s death first. She passed away while being held by Iran’s morality police after being arrested for improper hijab wear.

Iran’s ministry of intelligence and the intelligence organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards on Saturday said that both journalists are currently lodged in Iran’s Evin prison.

The CIA, Mossad, and other western intelligence organisations were accused of orchestrating the widespread demonstrations in Iran that followed Mahsa Amini’s passing and of using the female journalists as “main sources of news for foreign media.”

The statement said that Niloofar Hamedi, who pretended to be a journalist and coerced Mahsa Amini’s family to release information about their daughter’s death.

Niloofar Hamedi’s first publication of Mahsa Amini’s images set off protests in Tehran that later expanded to other nations, during which security forces killed at least 234 protestors, including 29 children.

The two intelligence agencies also charged the US with spending billions of dollars to track down individuals in Iran and link them to “Western networks under the guise of human rights initiatives and democracy promotion.”

Amid firing, protestors headed to Mahsa Amini grave in Iran

October 26, 2022, 5:56 pm

In defiance of increased security measures put in place as part of a violent crackdown on women-led rallies, Iranian mourners flocked to Mahsa Amini’s grave on Wednesday to mark 40 days since her passing.

Iranian security forces fired guns and launched tear gas at protesters in Saqez, the home town of Mahsa Amini, following commemorations for her death on Wednesday, the Hengaw rights group said.

“Security forces have shot tear gas and opened fire on people in Zindan square, Saqez city,” Hengaw, a Norway-based group that monitors rights violations in Kurdistan, said on Twitter.

“Woman, life, freedom” and “Death to the dictator”, hundreds of men and women chanted at the Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Amini’s home town in the western province of Kurdistan, in videos shared online.

Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman of Kurdish descent who was arrested by the infamous morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic dress code for women while visiting Tehran with her younger brother, passed away on September 16, three days after her imprisonment.

The strongest wave of protests to shake the Islamic republic in nearly three years began last month after anger erupted during her funeral. The movement has been spearheaded by young ladies and schoolgirls who have engaged security personnel on the street while burning their hijabs.

Overnight, Saqez’s officials tightened security, stationing officers in the city’s main square and apparently blocking off the city’s entrances.

Despite this, mourners went to her graveside early on Wednesday to mark the completion of 40 days since her passing and the completion of the customary Iranian period of mourning.

In videos posted online by activists and human rights organisations, they can be seen travelling along a highway, across fields, and even across a river in vehicles, motorcycles, and on foot.

Hundreds of mourners had gathered at the cemetery located eight kilometres (five miles) outside Saqez, in images that the Hengaw rights group told AFP it had verified.

Urvashi Rautela chops hair in support of Iranian women

October 17, 2022, 1:10 pm

Extending support to Iranian women and girls who have been killed in protests at the death of Mahsa Amini Urvashi Rautela has decided to chop off her hair.

Bollywood actor Urvashi Rautela compared her situation to that of Mahsa Amini and called herself a victim of “bullying”.

Taking to Instagram Urvashi Rautela wrote share a photo and captioned it, “CHOPPED MY HAIR OFF! cutting my hair in support of Iranian women and girls who have been killed in protests at the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by Iranian morality police & for all the girls. And for 19-year-old girl Ankita Bhandari from Uttarakhand.”

“Around the world women are uniting in protest against the Iranian government by cutting their hair. Respect Women. A Global Symbol For Women’s Revolution. Hair is seen as a symbol of the beauty of women. By chopping off the hair in public, women are showing that they don’t care about society’s beauty standards and won’t let anything or anyone decide how they dress up, behave or live,” Rautela continued.

Urvashi concluded the post by saying, “Once women come together and consider one women’s issue as an issue of the entire womankind, feminism will see a new vigor.”

Meanwhile, Urvashi is being trolled by the netizens as she is in Australia and trolling her for “stalking Rishabh Pant.”

Urvashi uploaded a video and wrote, “FIRST IN IRAN #MahsaAmini & NOW IN INDIA….it’s happening with me they’re bullying me as a Stalker ??? No one cares about me or supports me.”

“A strong woman is one who feels deeply & loves fiercely. Her tears flow as abundantly as her laughter. She is both soft & powerful, both practical & spiritual. She’s a gift to the world,” Urvashi wrote.

Moreover, after the death of Mahsa Amini more than 100 people have been killed in nationwide protests in Iran.

However, in Iran Mahsa Amini’s death sparked clashes as Iranian school girls and women have come out in huge numbers and removed their hijabs over Amini’s death.

At least 108 killed in Iranian protest over Mahsa Amini death : Report

October 12, 2022, 4:34 pm

According to Iran Human Rights, an organisation based in Oslo, at least 108 people have died as a result of Iran’s crackdown on more than three weeks of statewide protests brought on by Mahsa Amini’s death.

IHR said in a statement that the Iranian security forces also killed at least another 93 people during separate clashes in the city of Zahedan, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.

Iran experienced nationwide unrest on September 16, when Amini, who had been arrested by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the country’s severe dress code for women, passed away three days after going into a coma.

Anger over the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a police commander in the area sparked protests that led to violence in Zahedan on September 30.

On Tuesday, human rights organisations expressed concern over the severity of the crackdown in Sanandaj, the capital of Amini’s native Kurdistan province in western Iran.

Internet censorship, according to IHR, made it more difficult to research the scale of “repression” in Kurdistan and foreshadowed a “bloody crackdown” on protesters in the western province.

IHR stated, adding that the current death toll for the province did not include those killed during that time period.

The Olso-based group said it had so far recorded 28 deaths in Mazandaran province, 14 in Kurdistan, 12 in both Gilan and West Azerbaijan, and 11 in Tehran province.

It said the Iranian security forces had also arrested many children protesting on the streets and at schools in the past week.

“Children have a legal right to protest. The United Nations has an obligation to defend children’s rights in Iran by applying pressure on the Islamic Republic,” said Amiry-Moghaddam.

“Its toll also excluded six deaths that reportedly occurred during protests inside Rasht central prison in northern Iran on Sunday as it was still investigating the case”, IHR said.

It also said that the workers had also joined in nationwide strikes and protests at Asalouyeh petrochemical plant in Iran’s southwest, Abadan in western Iran and Bushehr to the south.

Iran : 19 people including guard colonel killed in anti-govt protest

October 1, 2022, 1:48 pm

In one of the deadliest clashes between police and protesters since Iran’s anti-government demonstrations began, nineteen people were killed on Friday. This was in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly disobeying Iran’s strict dress codes for women by donning an “improper hijab.”

Iranian protesters and police had a violent confrontation in southeastern Iran. The confrontation happened as worshippers from Iran’s Sunni minority left Friday prayers at the Makki Grand Mosque in Zahedan, capital of Sistan and Balochistan province, reported Voice of America (VOA).

“Nineteen people were killed and 20 injured in the incident,” regional governor Hossein Khiabani told the state broadcaster.

“Provincial intelligence officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Colonel Ali Mousavi was also killed,” state television added.

Iranian state media earlier on Friday stated that security personnel had retaliated after armed men attacked a police station in the provincial capital of Zahedan.

The protesters were labeled as terrorists and separatists by the Iranian state media, who also charged them with shooting guns at police.

Iran protestors torch police station in video as unrest over Mahsa Amini’s death spread

September 22, 2022, 3:42 pm

The unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini grew more intense for a sixth day when, on Thursday, protesters torched police stations and vehicles in Tehran, the capital of Iran, as well as numerous other cities around the nation. Mahsa Amini, 22, passed away last week after the morality police arrested her for not wearing a hijab.

The worst demonstrations in Iran since 2019 have spread to at least 50 cities and villages as a result of Mahsa Amini’s death.

Videos posted on the Iran protest-focused Twitter account 1500tasvir, which has about 100,000 followers, showed demonstrators yelling “We will die, we will die, but we’ll get Iran back” in the vicinity of a police station that was set on fire.

According to Reuters, a second police station in Tehran’s capital city was set on fire.

Iran banned internet access when there was no sign that the demonstrations were abating. Women have been a significant part of the protests, and several of them have waved or burned their hijabs or cut their hair in public.

Amid hijab protest, Joe Biden praises Iran’s brave women

September 22, 2022, 11:42 am

US President Joe Biden pledged support for Iranian women during his speech at the United Nations on Wednesday in light of the fact that at least eight people have died during the widespread protests that broke out in Iran after a woman died while in the custody of the police.

Following are the top five updates on Iranian protesters and what Joe Biden said:

1. “Today we stand with the brave folks and the brave women of Iran who right now are marching to achieve their basic rights,” Joe Biden said in a speech to the UN after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

2. Iran had a flurry of protests following the passing of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been detained by the nation’s morality police for reportedly donning a hijab headscarf in a “improper” manner.

3. Iranian authorities have refuted the assertion that Amini died as a result of a severe hit to her head.

4. In protests where there were a lot of women in attendance, protesters defiantly took off their hijabs and burned them in bonfires or symbolically chopped off their hair.

5. According to AFP, nationwide Internet services have been severely disrupted. According to Iranian state television, street protests had spread to 15 cities, and police had to use tear gas and make arrests to break up crowds of up to 1,000 people.