Thursday, March 28

Death toll rises to 35 in Iran protests, according to state television


Iranian state television raised the dead to 35 in the protests that have shaken the country for eight days over the case of Mahsa Aminiwho died after being arrested for not wearing the correct veil, compulsory garment in the Persian country. Non-governmental organizations assure that the death toll is much higher.

“35 people, including policemen, have been killed in the riots,” IRIB state television said in its news late Friday night.

The protests began on Friday the 16th when the death of Mahsa Amini was known after being arrested by the morality police for the fallen veil and have been spreading throughout the country.

In recent days it is more difficult to follow what is happening, given the restrictions that the authorities are imposing on Internet.

The government began restricting the internet on Wednesday, with mobile networks cut from evening to morning ever since, making it difficult for protesters, journalists and activists to use social media to share photos, videos and information about what is happening. .

The Army, “ready”

In turn, the Iranian Army warned that “it is ready” to help the Police deal with the protesters “to defend the National security“.

The military described the protests as “desperate actions of the diabolical strategy of the enemy to weaken the Islamic regime”, following the government version that the demonstrations are incited by the “foreign enemy” with the intervention of embassies and intelligence services of other countries.

Despite internet outages and warnings from the authorities that they will not allow “chaos”, many Iranians protested again last night in many parts of the country.

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“You can’t kill us all,” a protester shouted at police in the northern city of Rudsar, according to an unverified video shared by activists and journalists.

pain and empathy

Amini was arrested on Tuesday last week by the so-called morality police in Tehran, where she was visiting, and was taken to a police station to attend “an hour of re-education” for wearing the veil wrong.

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He died three days later in a hospital where he arrived in a coma after suffering a heart attack, which the authorities have attributed to health problems, something rejected by the family, who maintains that he died as a result of a beating he received in police facilities. .

His death has managed to galvanize thousands of Iranians through pain and empathy, unlike other occasions when the demonstrations were reduced to fragmented social groups mobilized by the economy.


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