Demonstrations in Iran: 19 dead, including a colonel of the Revolutionary Guards, in clashes – Le Figaro

UPDATE ON THE SITUATION – The demonstrations, the repression of which killed at least 83 people, began after the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, arrested by the morality police. Iranian forces opened fire on Friday September 30 on protesters armed with stones according to an opposition media based abroad, as the protest movement sparked by the death of a young woman arrested by the police enters its third week. The protests, whose crackdown has left at least 83 people dead, began after the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd, three days after her arrest for violating Iran’s strict dress code, which notably requires women to wear the Islamic veil. The power, which denies any involvement of the police in the death of this 22-year-old woman, castigates the demonstrators, described as “rioters”, reporting hundreds of arrests. Iran International, a Persian-language television channel based in London, broadcast several videos on Friday, which AFP could not immediately authenticate. “Death to the dictator”, launch bareheaded women in the city of Ardabil (north-west), according to one of them. In Avaz (southwest), the security forces fire tear gas to disperse many people out in the streets to chant slogans against the government, according to another video. Iran, which is now demonstrating”19 dead in clashes in a southeastern province the Iranian ideological army, reported a state media, at a time when the country is shaken by a protest movement. “The provincial intelligence officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Colonel Ali Moussavi, was killed,” state television said. Regional Governor Hossein Khiabani said on television that a total of 19 people had been killed and 20 injured in the “incident”. of several foreigners linked to the demonstrationsThe Iranian authorities announced on Friday the arrest of several foreigners in connection, according to them, with the protest movement triggered by the death of a young woman arrested by the morality police, which is entering its third week. In a statement, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence announced the arrest of “nine nationals from Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, etc”. According to him, they were arrested “at the scene of the riots or were involved in them”. Since the start of the demonstrations, the Iranian authorities have accused forces abroad, including the United States, their sworn enemy, of being behind the rallies or of inciting them. See also Iran announces that it has arrested nine foreigners involved In the demonstrations Attack against a police station In Zahedan, in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan (southeast), men came under fire as they threw stones at a police station, according to other images released by Iran International. Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights said a number of people were killed in Zahedan. Meanwhile, Iranian state television said gunmen opened fire on Friday and threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in the same city. “Several policemen and bystanders were injured in the exchange of fire,” she added. balance sheet. According to the Iranian news agency Fars, around 60 people have been killed since the protests began, while the NGO Iran Human Rights has reported at least 83 dead. Amnesty International has denounced the use by the security forces of “ruthless” violence, citing the use of live ammunition and lead pellets, beatings and sexual violence against women. Iran has made the veil the banner of Islamism and how the West has understood nothing for forty yearsArrest of a singerThe authorities have also reported the arrest of more than 1,200 demonstrators since September 16. Activists, lawyers and journalists have also been arrested, according to NGOs. A woman who had lunch without a headscarf in a restaurant in Tehran, whose photo has gone viral on social media, has been arrested, her sister said on Friday. Security forces also arrested singer Shervin Hajipour, whose song “Baraye” (“For”), made up of tweets about the protests, went viral on Instagram, according to rights group Article 19 and Persian media. based outside Iran. According to the Washington-based Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 29 journalists have also been arrested in connection with the crackdown. SEE ALSO – The Iranian President condemns the “chaos” of the demonstrations and the “hypocrisy” of the WestRallies in Western capitals, Iranian artists and sportsmen in solidarity with the demonstratorsThe repression was denounced by several Western capitals where demonstrations took place solidarity rallies with the protest movement. New protests are planned for Saturday in 70 cities around the world. Iranian filmmakers, athletes, musicians and actors also expressed their solidarity with the protesters, including the national football team. In an interview with the American magazine Time, a renowned lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, said she expected the protests to continue. “What the people want is regime change,” said the winner of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize. Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison but is currently at home in Tehran for medical reasons. “And what we can see of the demonstrations and strikes that are currently taking place represents a real possibility of regime change,” she said. to go get killed” on social mediaTehran committed “crimes against humanity” in 2019, international experts sayA panel of international lawyers investigating Iran’s 2019 crackdown on protests accused the government and military security forces of the Islamic Republic of “crimes against humanity”. The London-based Iran Atrocities Tribunal (Aban), set up by human rights groups, heard from more than 250 witnesses during its investigation into whether the Iranian regime violated international law in its crackdown of these unprecedented protests since the Islamic revolution of 1979 and triggered after a jump in the price of fuel.Read the fileDemonstrations in Iran: the feminist revolt defies the regimeThe authorities had succeeded in restoring calm to the country only at the cost of a violent crackdown, which according to Amnesty International had left at least 304 people dead, illustrating the deliberate intention of the police to fire on demonstrators. The court affirms that the elements collected by the experts suggest that the death toll would be much higher, and could even have reached 1,515 killed. “The panel unanimously finds … that beyond reasonable doubt, the Iranian government and security forces have devised and implemented a plan to commit crimes against humanity,” writes the six legal experts of the court in the synthesis of their judgment. SEE ALSO – Iran: “We are firing live ammunition at the demonstrators”, underlines a Franco-Iranian sociologist