Authorities in Iran have arrested four men for attacking a woman outside a poisoned girls’ school. As the Tasnim news agency reported yesterday, the woman was beaten by the men “in front of the Aban 13 school” in Tehran. A video widely shared online and analyzed by the AFP news agency showed a man assaulting a woman outside the school – believed to be the mother of a student affected by the poisoning.
For about three months now, reports of poisoning in girls’ schools have been reported in Iran, which authorities suspect is an attempt to exclude girls from school. The exact course of poison attacks and who is responsible are still unclear.
Iranian media have recently reported new poisoning attacks in a total of ten girls’ schools, seven in the northwestern city of Ardabil and three in the capital, Tehran. More than 100 students were hospitalized.
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Amnesty: About 100 executions since the beginning of the year
According to information from the human rights organization Amnesty International, around 100 people were executed in Iran in the first two months of the year. The human rights organization reported that authorities carried out at least 94 death sentences in January and February alone.
According to research by the US-based human rights organization Abdorrahman Boroumand Center and Amnesty, the number of executions has increased significantly over the previous year. The organizations also registered cases of “horrible sexual violence and other allegations of torture”. Amnesty accused Iranian authorities of using the death penalty as an “instrument of oppression” against ethnic minorities.