Security forces clash with protestors, over 75 killed as anti-hijab protests intensify in Iran
david waker
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Security forces clash with protestors, over 75 killed as anti-hijab protests intensify in Iran
As the demurrers entered their 12th day over the death of 22- time-old Mahsa Amini, Iranian hoot police and security forces disaccorded with demonstrators in dozens of metropolises on Tuesday. In a strong show of resistance and rage, the massiveanti-hijab kick in Iran has been one of the strongest demurrers against the ruling government in recent times and women have stood at the van.
Turkish singer @MelekMosso cuts off her hair on stage in solidarity with the Iranian women. Thank you Melek!#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests2022 pic.twitter.com/ZjISxjGkAL
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) September 27, 2022
Turkish songster Melek Mosso was the rearmost to join a legion of women showing their support for theanti-hijab demurrers in Iran. A videotape that has now gone viral on social media shows the artist cutting her hair on stage in solidarity with the protesters in Iran.
Despite a growing death risk and a fierce crackdown by security forces using tear gas, clubs and, in some cases, live security, vids posted on social media showed protesters calling for the fall of the pastoral establishment while colliding with security forces in Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, Qom, Yazd and numerous other Iranian metropolises.
The demurrers erupted in Iran after the death of 22- time-old Mahsa Amini, who failed after being in detention by morality police administering strict hijab rules on September 17. 10 days after her death, the demurrers have now spread across at least 46 Iranian metropolises, municipalities and townlets. Meanwhile, a rights group claimed that over 75 people have been killed in the demurrers amid clashes with security forces.
The Iranian authorities’ sanctioned death count, still, remained at 41, including several members of the security forces.
HOW THE WOMEN ARE PROTESTING
The women in Iran have been intimately mincing off their hair and burning their hijabs to protest against the country’s draconian laws. People are chanting’ Death to the oppressor’, calling for the end of the three- decade rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS SAYING
The Iranian government has dismissed the kick as a’ foreign plot’ rather than the expression of public outrage over Mahsa Amini’s death. There were also somepro-government marches in the megacity where the marchers chanted,” American mercenaries are fighting the religion.”
GOVT RESTRICTS INTERNET
The government’s decision to circumscribe Instagram, LinkedIn and WhatsApp — three of the last Western social media apps working in the country has limited the capability of protesters to organize and partake their vids with the outside world.
rather, only short clips find their way out, including those of security forces firing at protesters and women defiantly cutting off their hair and burning their hijabs. Security forces, including motorcycle- riding levies with Iran’s civil Revolutionary Guard, have attacked peaceful demonstrators.
There’s also been footage of apparent demonstrators setting fires, flipping over police buses and fighting back against hoot police.
