More violence as the fourth week of the Iran demonstrations begins

Iran claimed on Friday that despite her family’s claims that she had previously been healthy, an examination revealed that Amini had died from a chronic disease rather than from “blows” to the head.

On Saturday, as protests against the passing of Mahsa Amini reached their fourth week, schoolgirls chanted slogans, workers went on strike, and demonstrators engaged in violent altercations with security officers.

Infamous morality police for allegedly breaking the tight clothing code :-

Anger erupted following the murder of the 22-year-old Iranian Kurd on September 16, three days after she had been detained in Tehran by the infamous morality police for allegedly breaking the tight clothing code for women in the Islamic republic.

Iran claimed on Friday that despite her family’s claims that she had previously been healthy, an examination revealed that Amini had died from a chronic disease rather than from “blows” to the head.

The official report was disregarded, according to Amini’s father, who spoke to Iran International of London.

The source quoted him as stating on Saturday, “I observed with my own eyes that blood had come from Mahsa’s ears and back of her neck.”

Even as ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi sat for a group selfie with students at Tehran’s all-female Al-Zahra University to mark the start of the new academic year, the women-led protests persisted.

Iran Human Rights, an organisation located in Oslo, reported seeing young ladies yelling “Death to the oppressor” on the same campus (IHR).

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Hengaw rights organisation :-

In recordings that the Hengaw rights organisation claims were taken on Saturday, schoolgirls can be seen marching down a street while throwing their headscarves in the air in Saqez, Amini’s hometown in the Kurdistan province, while chanting, “Woman, life, freedom.”

Videos of a man who was shot dead while operating his car in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan, were widely circulated online.

Police chief of the province Ali Azadi claimed he was “killed by anti-revolutionary forces.”

In a widely circulated video, angry men can be seen swarming around and severely beating a member of the notorious Basij militia in Sanandaj.

We’ll combat the Sanandaj outages that Internet watchdog Netblocks reported as well as any disruptions to the country’s mobile networks.

A young woman who allegedly died after being shot in Mashhad is seen in another horrifying video. Many people on social media linked it to footage of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman who was shot and killed during protests in 2009 and who later became a durable symbol of the opposition.

Internet censorship notwithstanding, protesters are using innovative methods to spread their message.

“We no longer feel terrified. We’ll battle, “According to online photographs confirmed by AFP, a sizable poster posted over the Modares highway overpass in Tehran stated as much.

In other video, a man can be seen changing the words “The police are the servants of the people” to “The police are the murderers of the people” on a major government billboard on the same highway.

According to the ISNA news agency :-

According to the ISNA news agency, there is a significant security presence in the city, especially around universities. According to the report, Tehran saw “scattered and small groups” where “some demonstrators damaged public property.”

Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz, among other cities, have also reported street demonstrations.

Omid Memarian, a journalist and activist residing in the US, tweeted that videos from Tehran show several protests taking place in different areas of the city, both small and large.

Kurdish rights organisation Hengaw, located in Norway, reported “widespread strikes” in the Kurdistan region cities of Saqez, Sanandaj, and Divandarreh as well as Mahabad in West Azerbaijan.

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According to IHR, the crackdown claimed the lives of at least 95 protestors, escalating tensions between Iran and the West, particularly its arch-enemy the United States.

IHR reported that 90 more people had died in Sistan-Baluchestan province as a result of unrest brought on by claims that a local police commander had sexually assaulted a teenage girl, citing the Baluch Activists Campaign, a group based in the UK.

All state institutions be mobilised to enforce hijab laws :-

Raisi, who in July demanded that all state institutions be mobilised to enforce hijab laws, met with the speaker of the parliament and the head of the court on Saturday evening, according to state news agency IRNA.

In order to overcome the hatred and division against Iran, they emphasised that all strata of Iranian society must join together, regardless of language, religion, or nationality, according to IRNA.

Iran has accused foreign powers of inciting the protests on numerous occasions, and last week it revealed that nine foreign nationals, including those from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the Netherlands, had been detained.

The potential of arbitrary detention was the reason France issued a warning to its citizens visiting Iran on Friday, advising them to “leave the country as quickly as possible.”

The Netherlands recommended its people to stay away from Iran or to depart as soon as they could do so without risk.

The UK government was urged to take action on Iran’s violations of human rights by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker who was imprisoned in Tehran for six years until being freed in March.

We cannot ignore what is taking place in Iran, she told Sky News. And I believe Iran has to be held accountable.