The “hijab protest” continues to sweep Iran, following the death of the young woman Mehsa Amini. In the documentation distributed today (Friday) on social networks, Iranian protesters can be seen in the city of Nishapur, in the Khorasan Razau province, defacing the statue of Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, and ripping off his head.
A statue of Ayatollah Khomeini is taken down in Neyshabur, the historic city of the famed Iranian poet Omar Khayyam. “Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilizations the moon has seen passing by.” -Khayyam pic.twitter.com/i4rMGM11gt
— Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) October 14, 2022
In the meantime, the “Amnesty” organization published a report today with the names of the 23 children who were killed as a result of the violent repression of the regime’s security mechanisms. According to the report, 20 children were between the ages of 11 and 17, and three others were between the ages of 16 and 17. The organization also announced that most of the children were killed by gunfire.
Meanwhile, according to the organization’s data, ten children were killed in Sistan and Baluchistan province, five children in Tehran, four children near the border with Azerbaijan, and one child in four different districts. As a result, Let’s gothe regional director of Amnesty in the Middle East and North Africa, called again for an urgent meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, and to issue a resolution to establish an independent international mechanism that would oblige the authorities in Iran to bear responsibility. According to her, the systematic impunity of human rights violators in Iran causes loss of human life , including children”.
#BREAKING Amnesty International confirms that “Iran’s security forces have unlawfully killed at least 23 children to crush what many people in Iran consider a popular uprising against the Islamic Republic. The victims, aged between 11 and 17, include 20 boys and 3 girls.” pic.twitter.com/PxQ2YpPzyn
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 13, 2022
Also, the Amnesty organization announced that it also documented the killing of 144 people, during the “national uprising of the Iranian people against the regime of the Islamic Republic”. The organization emphasized that the number of people killed in the protests reached 201 people.
As a reminder, following the severe violence used by the country’s authorities against the protesters, the United States and the European Union announced a series of new sanctions against the Iranians. The US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan He stated that the world is following the killing of the protesters in Iran, and added that the US will make sure to place the responsibility “on those who used violence to silence the voices of protest”.
The UNICEF organization expressed great concern about the harm to children and teenagers during the suppression of the demonstrations in the country, and the British government announced that new sanctions would be taken against security and political figures in the country. Among other things, it was decided to freeze the assets of the commander of Iran’s chastity guards, Mohammad Rostani Gashi, and the commander of the Iranian police, Hossein Sanctions were also imposed on the commander of the Basij force, a militia operating within the Revolutionary Guards.