PARIS —
The parents of
Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of Iran’s morality
police has sparked 12 nights of protests, have filed a complaint against the
officers involved in her detention, the family’s lawyer said Wednesday.
اضافة اعلان
Amini, 22, who
was visiting Tehran from western Kurdistan province, died on September 16,
three days after she was detained for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict rules
for women on wearing hijab headscarves and modest clothing.
The bereaved
family wants “a thorough investigation” and the release of “all videos and
photographs” showing Amini while in custody, said their lawyer Saleh Nikbakht,
as quoted by ISNA news agency.
After Amini’s
death sparked a wave of major unrest, Iran’s police command warned that
security forces would confront the protests “with all their might”, despite
growing calls for restraint amid a crackdown that rights groups say has already
killed more than 75 people.
In another
escalation, Iran launched on Wednesday cross-border missile and drone strikes
that killed nine people in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, after accusing Kurdish
armed groups based there of stoking the unrest.
The strikes were
condemned by the
UN mission in Iraq, and the federal government in Baghdad
summoned the Iranian ambassador.
“These cowardly
attacks are occurring at a time when the terrorist regime of Iran is unable to
crack down on ongoing protests inside and silence the Kurdish and Iranian
peoples’ civil resistance,” tweeted the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, one
of the groups targeted.
In the Iranian
protests, “Woman, Life, Freedom!” has been the rallying cry as women have
defiantly burned their headscarves in bonfires or symbolically cut off their
hair, cheered on by crowds.
Riot police in
black body armor were seen shooting at apartment windows in Tehran’s Ekbatan
Town, in footage shared overnight by Radio Farda — a US-funded Persian station
based in Prague.
The Iranian
police command Wednesday said its “officers will oppose with all their might
the conspiracies of counter-revolutionaries and hostile elements, and deal
firmly with those who disrupt public order and security anywhere in the
country.”
The warning came
only hours after the UN said its secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, had
called on Iran’s President
Ebrahim Raisi not to use “disproportionate force”
against protesters.
“We are
increasingly concerned about reports of rising fatalities, including women and
children, related to the protests,” the UN chief’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric
said.
Fars news agency
said Tuesday “around 60” people had been killed since Amini’s death, up from
the official toll of 41. But the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said the
crackdown has killed at least 76 people.
On Tuesday,
authorities in Iran, having arrested more than 1,200 people, also arrested the
daughter of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for “inciting rioters”,
Tasnim news agency reported.
The crackdown
has drawn condemnation from around the world, with Germany summoning the
Iranian ambassador and Canada announcing sanctions against Iran.
Spain also
called in the Iranian ambassador to express its “objection over the repression
of the protests and the violation of women’s rights”.
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