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Viral photo from 2022 of many people traveling by car toward a cemetery in Saqez, the hometown of Mahsa Jina Amini, following her death. A woman shot from behind, her hair freed, raises her hands to the sky. The photo is rendered in red and white, while black and white font superimposed reads: You wanted to instill fear in us; instead, courage was instilled

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Today marks one year anniversary of 2022 Iranian uprising against the oppressive Islamic Republic regime. An uprising that started with the brutal murder of a young kurd woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, for "inappropriate hijab".

For the past couple of weeks, the regime has prepared their forces to beat down any new movement immediately. The streets of Tehran and many other cities are lined with anti riot forces and police cars. In Saqez, the home city of Amini family, they've stationed the army around the city to massacre people in case they try to start another wave of protest. Mahsa's father has been arrested alongside some family members of other last year uprising martyrs.

There has been small protesting gatherings in Iran in the last two days, there has already been some arrests and violent crackdowns on protesters. I hear people chanting from my neighborhood homes. The government would commit as many bloodbaths as it takes to secure their position, but you can't beat people into obedience when they hate you from the bottom of their hearts.

Woman life freedom

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Rights groups have claimed that Iranian authorities arrested Mahsa Amini’s father and prevented her family from holding a vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of her death.

A report on Saturday in the official IRNA news agency said Amjad Amini had not been arrested. Later in the day, the agency said security forces had foiled an assassination attempt against Amini.

The 1500tasvir monitor, the Iran Human Rights (IHR) group and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said Amjad Amini had been arrested early on Saturday in Saqez in western Iran and released after being warned not to hold a memorial service at his daughter’s graveside.

The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by Iranian morality police last year for not adhering to mandatory dress codes, led to months of some of the biggest protests against clerical rule ever seen in Iran.

More than 500 people, including 71 minors, were killed in the protests, while hundreds were wounded and thousands arrested, rights groups said. Iran executed seven people linked to the unrest.

Protests, international attention

As night fell on Saturday, a heavy security presence in Iran’s main cities and in mostly Kurdish areas appeared to have deterred large-scale protest rallies but human rights groups reported sporadic confrontations in several areas of the country.

Videos posted on social media showed people gathered on a main avenue in the capital Tehran cheering a young protesting couple as drivers honked their car horns in support.

One of Iran’s most high-profile prisoners, prize-winning rights activist Narges Mohammadi and three other women detainees burned their headscarves in the courtyard of Tehran’s Evin prison to mark the anniversary, according to a post on Mohammadi’s Instagram.

Outside Tehran, at the Qarchak prison for women, rights groups said a fire broke out when security forces quelled a protest by inmates. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network said special forces beat up women in the prison and fired pellet bullets. IRNA reported that a fire engulfed the women’s ward in Qarchak after convicts awaiting execution set fire to their clothes. It said the blaze was put out and there were no casualties.

Protests were also reported in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, and in Mashhad, northeast of the capital. One video posted on social media showed a group of demonstrators in the Karaj neighbourhood of Gohardasht chanting, “We are a great nation, and will take back Iran”, while drivers honked their horns and shouted encouragement.

In the Kurdish city of Mahabad, rights group Hengaw said security forces opened fire, wounding at least one person. It also said several people were wounded in the city of Kermanshah but there was no official confirmation of either incident.

In Amini’s home town, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that police using a pellet gun had seriously wounded a man who “ignored a warning”. It said the man was in an intensive care ward after undergoing an operation, but provided no more detail.

Hengaw identified the man as Fardin Jafari and said he had been shot in the head near the cemetery where Amini is buried.

Al Jazeera could not verify the report.

Hengaw also reported a widespread general strike in Kurdish areas on Saturday, circulating video and photos that appeared to show streets largely empty and shops shuttered. Human Rights Activists in Iran, another group that closely follows events in the country, also reported the general strike.

But state media dismissed the reports, with IRNA saying Saqez was “completely quiet” and that calls for strikes in Kurdish areas had failed due to “people’s vigilance and the presence of security and military forces”.

The agency quoted an official in the Kurdistan province as saying: “A number of agents affiliated with counter-revolutionary groups who had planned to create chaos and prepare media fodder were arrested in the early hours of this morning.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, meanwhile, arrested a dual national suspected of “trying to organise unrest and sabotage”, according to IRNA, one of several arrests of “counter revolutionaries” and “terrorists” reported.

Demonstrations and vigils were also held outside Iran, with protesters gathering in Sydney, Paris, London, Rome, Toronto, New York and Washington, DC, to commemorate Amini’s death.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that a garden in the French capital now carried Amini’s name. The mayor called Amini an Iranian resistance hero and said Paris “honours her memory and her battle, as well as those of women who fight for their freedom in Iran and elsewhere”.

The Villemin Garden that now also bears Amini’s name is in Paris’s 10th district, next to a canal with popular boat tours.

In Washington, DC, the capital of the United States, hundreds of protesters gathered in a park across from the White House holding portraits of Amini. Speakers led the crowd in chants of “Say her name … Mahsa Amini”, and recited, “We are the revolution”, as well as, “Human rights for Iran!”

In a statement on Friday, US President Joe Biden said, “Mahsa’s story did not end with her brutal death. She inspired a historic movement – Woman, Life, Freedom – that has impacted Iran and influenced people across the globe.”

The US, meanwhile, announced sanctions on more than two dozen individuals and entities connected to Iran’s “violent suppression” of protests, while the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on four Iranian officials.

Iran has blamed last year’s protests on the US and other foreign powers, without providing evidence, and has since tried to downplay the unrest even as it moves to prevent any resurgence.

In a report last month, Amnesty International said Iranian authorities “have been subjecting victims’ families to arbitrary arrest and detention, imposing cruel restrictions on peaceful gatherings at grave sites, and destroying victims’ gravestones”.

Many journalists, lawyers, activists, students, academics, artists, public figures and members of ethnic minorities accused of links with the protest wave, as well as relatives of protesters killed in the unrest, have been arrested, summoned, threatened or fired from jobs in the past few weeks, according to Iranian and Western human rights groups.

Iran’s Etemad daily reported in August that the lawyer for Amini’s family also faced charges of “propaganda against the system”.

If convicted, Saleh Nikbakht faces a jail sentence of between one and three years.

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Las fuerzas de seguridad de Irán reprimen las protestas un año después de la muerte de Mahsa Amini

Las fuerzas de seguridad iraníes reprimieron las protestas en las zonas kurdas del país el sábado y detuvieron brevemente al padre de Mahsa Amini, un año después de que la muerte de la joven bajo custodia desencadenara algunos de los peores disturbios políticos en cuatro décadas.

Los Guardias Revolucionarios detuvieron a un ciudadano con doble nacionalidad sospechoso de "intentar organizar disturbios y sabotajes", informó la agencia oficial de noticias IRNA, uno de varios arrestos de "contrarrevolucionarios" y "terroristas".

Al caer la noche del sábado, una fuerte presencia de fuerzas de seguridad en las zonas mayoritariamente kurdas de Irán parecía haber disuadido manifestaciones de protesta a gran escala, pero grupos de derechos humanos informaron de enfrentamientos esporádicos en varias zonas del país.

La muerte de Mahsa Amini, una mujer kurda de 22 años arrestada por la policía moral el año pasado por supuestamente violar los códigos de vestimenta obligatorios, desencadenó meses de algunas de las mayores protestas contra el gobierno clerical chiíta de la República Islámica jamás vistas y atrajo la atención internacional. condenación.

A pesar de la fuerte presencia de seguridad el sábado, hubo indicios de acciones de protesta en varios puntos del país. Videos publicados en las redes sociales mostraban a personas reunidas en una avenida principal de la capital, Teherán, animando a una joven pareja que protestaba mientras los conductores tocaban las bocinas de sus autos en señal de apoyo.

IRNA informó que el fuego envolvió el pabellón de mujeres de la prisión de Qarchak en la provincia de Teherán antes de ser extinguido después de que los convictos en espera de ejecución prendieron fuego a sus ropas. Dijo que no hubo víctimas.

La Red de Derechos Humanos del Kurdistán, que dijo que el incidente estaba relacionado con las protestas, dijo que fuerzas especiales entraron en la sala, golpearon a las mujeres y dispararon perdigones.

En otro incidente, el grupo de derechos humanos Hengaw dijo que las fuerzas de seguridad abrieron fuego en la ciudad kurda de Mahabad, hiriendo al menos a una persona. También dijo que varias personas resultaron heridas en la ciudad de Kermanshah, pero no hubo confirmación oficial de ninguno de los incidentes.

En Saqez, la ciudad natal de Amini, en el noroeste de Irán, la agencia de noticias semioficial Fars informó que la policía había herido gravemente con una pistola de perdigones a un hombre que "ignoró una advertencia policial". Dijo que el hombre estaba en una sala de cuidados intensivos después de ser sometido a una operación, pero no proporcionó más detalles.

Las publicaciones en las redes sociales también mostraban imágenes de residentes de ciudades como Teherán gritando consignas contra el líder supremo, el ayatolá Ali Jamenei, como "¡Muerte al dictador!" así como protestas en zonas como Gohardasht, en la ciudad de Karaj al oeste de Teherán, y en Mashhad en el noreste.

Un vídeo publicado en las redes sociales mostraba a un grupo de manifestantes en Gohardasht cantando "Somos una gran nación y recuperaremos Irán", mientras los conductores tocaban las bocinas y gritaban aliento. Reuters no pudo autenticar de inmediato el video.

En las manifestaciones que siguieron a la muerte de Amini, más de 500 personas, entre ellas 71 menores, murieron, cientos resultaron heridas y miles fueron arrestadas, dijeron grupos de derechos humanos. Irán llevó a cabo siete ejecuciones relacionadas con los disturbios.

El sábado, se advirtió al padre de Mahsa, Amjad Amini, que no celebrara el aniversario de la muerte de su hija antes de ser liberado, dijo la Red de Derechos Humanos del Kurdistán, y la familia no pudo realizar una vigilia planificada junto a su tumba.

Una mujer participa en una protesta contra el régimen islámico de Irán tras la muerte de Mahsa Amini, en Estambul, Turquía, el 10 de diciembre de 2022. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya Adquiere derechos de licencia

IRNA negó en un informe que Amjad Amini hubiera sido arrestado, pero no dijo si fue detenido brevemente o advertido.

Anteriormente, las redes sociales y los informes de grupos de derechos humanos hablaban de fuerzas de seguridad tomando posiciones alrededor de la casa de Amini en Saqez, en el oeste de Irán.

'MOVIMIENTO HISTÓRICO'

La represión de las protestas se produjo cuando la condena del organismo de control nuclear de las Naciones Unidas a la decisión de Teherán de excluir a varios inspectores del país subrayó el aislamiento de Irán de Occidente.

En Washington, cientos de manifestantes se reunieron en un parque frente a la Casa Blanca con retratos de Amini. Los oradores encabezaron a la multitud con cánticos de "Di su nombre… Mahsa Amini", y también recitaron "¡Somos la revolución" y "¡Derechos humanos para Irán!".

En una declaración del viernes, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, dijo: "La historia de Mahsa no terminó con su brutal muerte. Ella inspiró un movimiento histórico - Mujer, Vida, Libertad - que ha impactado a Irán e influido en personas de todo el mundo".

Gran Bretaña impuso el viernes sanciones a cuatro funcionarios iraníes y Estados Unidos dijo que estaba sancionando a más de dos docenas de personas y entidades relacionadas con la "represión violenta" de las protestas por parte de Irán.

Sin nombrar a Biden, el portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Irán, Nasser Kanaani, calificó de "dobles raseros y mentiras" las expresiones occidentales de apoyo a los derechos de las mujeres en Irán.

Los medios estatales también descartaron informes de disturbios y huelgas en varias ciudades de la región del Kurdistán iraní. IRNA dijo que Saqez estaba "completamente tranquilo" y que los llamados a ataques en las zonas kurdas habían fracasado debido a "la vigilancia de la gente y la presencia de fuerzas militares y de seguridad".

La agencia citó a un funcionario de la provincia de Kurdistán diciendo: "Varios agentes afiliados a grupos contrarrevolucionarios que habían planeado crear caos y preparar material para los medios fueron arrestados en las primeras horas de esta mañana".

En un informe del mes pasado, Amnistía Internacional dijo que las autoridades iraníes "han estado sometiendo a las familias de las víctimas a arrestos y detenciones arbitrarias, imponiendo restricciones crueles a las reuniones pacíficas en las tumbas y destruyendo las lápidas de las víctimas".

Muchos periodistas, abogados, activistas, estudiantes, académicos, artistas, figuras públicas y miembros de minorías étnicas acusados de tener vínculos con la ola de protestas, así como familiares de manifestantes muertos en los disturbios, han sido arrestados, citados, amenazados o despedidos de sus puestos de trabajo. en las últimas semanas, según grupos de derechos humanos iraníes y occidentales.

El diario iraní Etemad informó en agosto que el abogado de la familia de Amini también enfrentaba cargos de "propaganda contra el sistema". Si es declarado culpable, Saleh Nikbakht se enfrenta a una pena de cárcel de entre uno y tres años.

Edición de Toby Chopra, Alex Richardson, Nick Macfie y Daniel Wallis

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Today in saqez someone got shot in the head .

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"Unveiling the Unthinkable: Iran's Forces Detain Mahsa Amini's Father on Her Grievous Anniversary!"

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"Unveiling the Unthinkable: Iran's Forces Detain Mahsa Amini's Father on Her Grievous Anniversary!"

Mahsa Amini’s Father Detained by Iranian Authorities on Anniversary of Daughter’s Death On the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in Iranian police custody, her father, Amjad Amini, was briefly detained on Saturday, according to human rights groups. The incident occurred amidst a heavy presence of security forces, who were positioned around Amini’s home in Saqez, western Iran. According to…

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"Unveiling the Unthinkable: Iran's Forces Detain Mahsa Amini's Father on Her Grievous Anniversary!"

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Los envenenamientos provocan protestas en la ciudad natal de Amini en Irán

Redacción internacional (EFE).- Varios casos de envenenamientos en centros educativos femeninos provocaron este domingo protestas en Saqez, ciudad …Los envenenamientos provocan protestas en la ciudad natal de Amini en Irán

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“FREEDOM”

Photo of a woman standing on a car with her hands in the air as masses of cars and people head toward the horizon was taken forty days after Mahsa Jina Amini was killed. The word FREEDOM, where the woman forms the Alef, is superimposed in yellow.

An estimated ten thousand people attempted to gather to mourn in Saqez, a city in the Kurdistan province where Amini is buried. Protests also erupted across the country, numbering in the tens of thousands.

Forty days following the death of a family member or friend is a traditional day of mourning in Iran. More about traditional funerary and mourning customs.

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"Who do we call when the police murders?

به کی زنگ بزنیم وقتی قاتل خودش پلیسه؟

Graffiti seen in Iran during the ongoing protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22yr old woman who fell into a coma after being beaten in police custody.

Ms Amini, an ethnic Kurd who was from the western city of Saqez in Kurdistan province, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.

She was detained outside a metro station in Tehran last Tuesday by morality police. They accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing.

According to witnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van that took her to a detention centre.

Protests erupted in Saqez after her funeral on Saturday, with security forces reportedly opening fire on a crowd that marched towards the local governor's office.

There were also clashes between protesters and riot police in Sanandaj, Kurdistan's capital, on Saturday and Sunday.

Four people were reportedly killed in Iran's Kurdish region on Monday when security forces opened fire during protests over the death, a Kurdish rights group said.

Her death has been condemned nationwide, with the Persian hashtag reaching nearly 2 million Twitter mentions.

The most intense demonstrations have been in Iranian Kurdistan, where authorities have previously put down unrest among minority Kurds.

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Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral - BBC News

Mahsa Amini, 22, died on Friday, days after eyewitnesses said she was beaten in a police van in Tehran - allegations denied by police.

Some women at the ceremony reportedly removed their headscarves in protest at the compulsory wearing of hijabs.

Mourners chanted "death to the dictator", with videos showing police later firing on a crowd.

The funeral took place in Ms Amini's hometown, Saqez, in the western province of Kurdistan.

According to videos published on social media, locals gathered very early in the morning to prevent Iranian security forces rushing through the burial in secret to avoid protests.

Reports suggested that some angry protesters marched toward the local governor's office to protest about the death. According to videos received and verified by the BBC Persian Service, the security forces opened fire on protesters.

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The UN has expressed alarm at Iranian authorities' response to protests sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.

Human rights groups said three people were killed on Monday as security forces opened fire at men, women and children who took to the streets of Kurdistan province for a fourth day.

Protests also took place in Tehran.

The UN urged Iran's leaders to allow peaceful demonstrations and launch an impartial probe into the woman's death.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from the western city of Saqez, who was from Iran's Kurdish minority, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.

She was with her brother in Tehran on Tuesday when she was arrested by Iran's morality police, who accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing. She fell into a coma shortly after collapsing at a detention centre.

Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif said there were reports that Ms Amini was beaten on the head with a baton by morality police officers and that her head was banged against one of their vehicles.

The police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered "sudden heart failure". But her family has said she was fit and healthy.

"Mahsa Amini's tragic death and allegations of torture and ill-treatment must be promptly, impartially and effectively investigated by an independent competent authority, that ensures, in particular, that her family has access to justice and truth," Ms Nashif said.

She noted that the UN had received "numerous, and verified, videos of violent treatment of women" as morality police expanded their street patrols in recent months to crack down on those perceived to be wearing "loose hijab".

"The authorities must stop targeting, harassing, and detaining women who do not abide by the hijab rules," she added, calling for their repeal.

An aide to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid a visit to Ms Amini's family on Monday and told them that "all institutions will take action to defend the rights that were violated", state media reported.

Senior MP Jalal Rashidi Koochi publicly criticised the morality police, saying the force was a "mistake" as it had only produced "loss and damage" for Iran.

What are Iran's hijab laws?

Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, authorities in Iran imposed a mandatory dress code requiring all women to wear a headscarf and loose-fitting clothing that disguises their figures in public.

Morality police - known formally as "Gasht-e Ershad" (Guidance Patrols) - are tasked, among other things, with ensuring women conform with the authorities' interpretation of "proper" clothing. Officers have the power to stop women and assess whether they are showing too much hair; their trousers and overcoats are too short or close-fitting; or they are wearing too much make-up. Punishments for violating the rules include a fine, prison or flogging.

In 2014, Iranian women began sharing photos and videos of themselves publicly flouting the hijab laws as part of an online protest campaign called "My Stealthy Freedom". It has since inspired other movements, including "White Wednesdays" and "Girls of Revolution Street".

Ms Nashif also condemned "the reported unnecessary or disproportionate use of force" against the thousands of people who have taken in part in protests against the morality police and the hijab since Mahsa Amini's death.

Hengaw, a Norway-based organisation that monitors human rights in predominantly Kurdish areas, said 38 people were injured on Saturday and Sunday when riot police fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas at protests in Saqez and Sanandaj, the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province.

The group reported that three male protesters were shot and killed in clashes with security forces on Monday - one in Saqez and two others in the towns of Divandarreh and Dehgolan - as the unrest escalated. It had previously reported the death of a second man in Divandarreh, but relatives said he was in a critical condition in hospital.

In Tehran, videos posted online showed protests on Monday outside several universities and on Keshavarz Boulevard, a major road in the city centre.

Women were filmed taking off their headscarves and shouting "death to the dictator" - a chant often used in reference to the Supreme Leader. Others shouted "justice, liberty, no to mandatory hijab".

A woman who took part in a protest on Monday night in the northern city of Rasht sent BBC Persian photographs of what she said were bruises she suffered as a result of being beaten by riot police with batons and hoses.

"When we took to the streets to show our solidarity and anger the only thing they [the police] did was beat us," she said.

"They kept firing tear gas. Our eyes were burning," she added. "We were running away, [but] they cornered me and beat me. They were calling me a prostitute and saying I was out in the street to sell myself!"

Another woman who protested in the central city of Isfahan told the BBC's Ali Hamedani: "While we were waving our headscarves in the sky I felt so emotional to be surrounded and protected by other men. It feels great to see this unity. I hope the world supports us."

Tehran Governor Mohsen Mansouri tweeted on Tuesday that the protests were "fully organised with the agenda to create unrest", while state TV alleged that Ms Amini's death was being used as an "excuse" by Kurdish separatists and critics of the establishment.