Paris: Since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iran, the fire of protests has been burning for the last 5 weeks. At the same time, the government is making various efforts to suppress this protest. In this episode, the government has shut down the internet, due to which the angry protesters again took to the streets on Saturday and demonstrated fiercely.
Let us tell you that Mahsa Amini died in police custody on 16 September, after which protests have been going on across Iran. Young women have been at the forefront of the biggest wave of street protests the country has seen in years.
Protesting women have shared a video of a meeting held at the Shariati College of Technology and Business in Tehran. In the video, women are shouting slogans fiercely. In the video, guns, tanks, and slogans like ‘Mullaon Bhag Jao’ are being raised.
In footage verified by the AFP news agency, hundreds of thousands of people shouting slogans and whistling objects were thrown at security forces near a historic roundabout in the city of Hamdan, west of Tehran.
Video has been shared on Twitter, in which protesters are also seen on the streets of the northwestern city of Ardabil after online monitor netblocks called a major disruption to Internet traffic. At the same time, 1500 Photos social media channel, which monitors protests and police violations, said that shopkeepers in Amini’s hometown of Sakage in Kurdistan province and areas of West Azerbaijan on Saturday closed their shops in support of the demonstration.
At least 233 protesters have been killed since the demonstrations began in Iran on September 17, according to US-based rights watchdog “HRANA”. The group said 32 of the dead were under the age of 18. Earlier, Oslo-based “Iran Human Rights” estimated that 201 people were killed.
