PARIS — Iranian activists behind protests
over
Mahsa Amini’s death called on Saturday for major demonstrations next week,
marking three years since a bloody crackdown on unrest sparked by fuel price
hikes.
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The call to commemorate those slain in the 2019
protests on Tuesday comes as Iran grapples with more than eight weeks of
nationwide demonstrations that erupted over Amini’s death in custody.
“Let us gather on November 15 and conquer one of
Tehran’s highways. The streets are ours,” said a notice from anonymous
activists published on Twitter by women’s rights campaigner Negin Shiraghaei.
Similar calls were issued by anonymous youth
activists in the cities of Ahvaz, Babol, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Tabriz, among
others.
“We will start from high schools, universities, and
markets and continue with neighborhood-centered gatherings to move to main
squares of cities,” they said, quoted by London-based Iran International
television.
The wave of 2019 protests known as “Bloody Aban” —
or Bloody November — was triggered by a surprise overnight announcement hiking
the price of fuel by as much as 200 percent.
The days of unrest in Iran from November 15 saw
police stations attacked, shops looted, and banks and petrol stations torched
as authorities imposed a week-long internet blackout.
Amnesty International said at least 304 people were
killed in the unrest that quickly spread to more than 100 urban centers across
the Islamic republic.
A tribunal convened in London this year by various
human rights groups said expert evidence suggested the actual number killed was
likely far more, and possibly even as high as 1,515.
The anonymous youth groups behind the latest calls
for protests have been mobilizing since the death of Amini on September 16,
after she fell into a coma following her arrest for an alleged breach of the
Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women.
Oslo-based group
Iran Human Rights said on Saturday
that security forces had killed at least 326 people so far in the ongoing
crackdown on the Amini protests.
The unrest was fanned by fury over the dress rules
for women, but has grown into a broad movement against the theocracy that has
ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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