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Solidarity demonstration in Melbourne, September 2022. Deaths during the Mahsa Amini protests refer to those people who were killed due to Iran's nationwide protests of 2022, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, in a Tehran hospital under suspicious circumstances.
At least 551 people, including 68 minors, had been killed as a result of the government's intervention in the protests, as of 15 September 2023. [ note 1 ] Before February 2023 when most were pardoned, [ 16 ] an estimated 19,262 were arrested [ note 2 ] across at least 134 cities and towns and 132 universities.
Up to forty people were killed and many wounded in Zahedan after protests that were sparked by reports about a police chief who had raped a 15-year-old girl in Chahbahar. [ 75 ] [ 74 ] Three days prior, the Friday Imam of Rask, Molavi Abdul Ghaffar Naghshbandi, had disclosed the identity of the police chief. [ 76 ]
Iran is moving to head off a possible repeat of unrest ahead of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, arresting women’s rights activists and family members of people killed during ...
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have put down unrest in the country’s Kurdish areas for decades and many Kurdish activists have been sentenced to long jail terms or death.
The Iranian government confirmed the deaths of 36 people during the protests, [7] while unconfirmed reports by supporters of Mousavi allege that there were 72 deaths in the three months following the disputed election. [8] [9] Sept 16, 2022: 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was beaten by police and later died in hospital.
Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East ...
Mohammad Iqbal Naibzahi who was killed on Bloody Friday of Zahedan. A 6 October 2022 Amnesty International report found that on 30 September government forces had "unlawfully fired live ammunition, metal pellets and teargas" directly into the vicinity of the Great Mosalla of Zahedan prayer site, a large prayer site across the road from the police station, "where hundreds of people, including ...