On the occasion of the beginning of the academic year, Iranian students organized anti-government rallies on Saturday (October 1st) in several universities in the country, “thereby giving a new impetus to the anti-regime demonstrations” who have been shaking Iran for more than two weeks, writes Financial Times.
And this, continues the correspondent in Tehran of the British newspaper, “despite the intensification of repression”. At least 92 people have been killed since the start of this wave of protest in Iran, the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Norway, said on Sunday October 2.
It was the death of the young Iranian Kurdish Mahsa Amini, arrested on September 13 because of her ill-fitting veil by a brigade of the morality police, which set fire to the powder. In this context, the Iranian opposition media Iran international revealed the identity of the four members of this brigade – two men and two women – on the basis of information recovered by a group of hackers.
Anger also fueled by “soaring prices, high unemployment and corruption” signs of “l’