Iran prevents Masha Amini’s family from publicly commemorating her death

2023-09-16 22:07:17

“Amjad Amini is under house arrest,” reported the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), referring to the father of the young woman, who died at the age of 22 in a health center after having passed through police stations.

“The security forces They prevent him from visiting his daughter’s grave Jina Mahsa Amini on the anniversary of her assassination,” added the organization opposed to the Iranian regime.

IHR indicated that The young woman’s family home is “surrounded by military forces” in the city of Saqez, in Iranian Kurdistan, to prevent them from leaving the house to carry out a religious ceremony to commemorate his death.

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This morning Amini’s father was detained for a few hours to warn him not to commemorate the first anniversary of his daughter’s death, IHR reported.

The official Iranian agency, IRNA, denied the arrest of Amjad Amini and stated that the news about his arrest is aimed at “inciting the population to protest.”

Cemetery restrictions

The Iranian security forces have also imposed strong restrictions at Aichi cemeterywhere Amini is buried, where protests began the day after her death, on September 16, 2022.

For his part, the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, met with relatives of members of the security forces who died in the protests, IRNA reported today.

Amini’s death caused strong protests shouting “women, life, freedom” who for months called for the end of the Islamic Republic and which died out after a repression that caused 500 deaths, thousands of arrests and in which seven protesters were executed, one of them in public.

Ahead of the anniversary of his death, Iranian authorities have deployed heavy security measures on the streets of Tehran and other cities, including motorized riot police, to prevent new protests.

Added to this is that in recent weeks the Iranian authorities have intensified warnings and arrests of activists and journalists to silence demands for freedoms.

Dozens of relatives of those killed in the demonstrations have suffered arbitrary arrests, restrictions on holding peaceful meetings in places where graves are located and the destruction of tombstones, Amnesty International (AI) has denounced.