A 35-year-old graduate student, Nasrin Ghadri, who was studying philosophy in Tehran, died yesterday after being beaten with a baton by security forces during Friday’s protests. Outraged by the death of the scholar – originally from Marivan – Many people went to the square in the city today Kurdistan, chanting “Death to Khamenei”. Demonstrators blocked some streets. According to testimonies collected in some videos circulating on social media, the police used their hard fist by shooting at protesters, as they have done in recent weeks, injuring some people. Nasrin Ghadri fell into a coma and then died after being hit in the head. The same fate had happened Mahsa Aminithe 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in September after being hit on the head by vice squads during his arrest for improperly wearing the Islamic veil: His death sparked an unprecedented wave of protests, as on Friday, which Nasrin attended. Protesters accused the government of rushing the woman’s funeral this morning and also forcing her father to announce that the cause of their daughter’s death was linked to an “illness” or “intoxication,” similar to the version adopted by the authorities in the case of Mahsa Amini.
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The overwhelming majority of the 290 Iranian MPs demanded that the judiciary apply the law of vengeance against the “enemies of God” in relation to the perpetrators of the “riots” that have been shaking the country for weeks. In a statement signed by 227 of the 290 MPs, lawmakers urged the country’s leadership, including the judiciary, to apply the Retribution Law against the Mohareb (enemies of God) as soon as possible. “We call on the government to take firm action to address the perpetrators of these crimes and everyone who instigated the riots, including some politicians.”
Meanwhile, arrests continue: three teams affiliated with the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (Mko) group — classified as terrorists by Tehran — have been stopped, according to reports by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. A statement cited by Fars argues that the teams aimed to take action sabotage and terrorists in Khuzestan, Fars and Isfahan provinces, Attracting “rioters” to attack state, security and police centers, destroy public property and kill people.
Four officers at a police station in the city of Bampour, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan, were killed in an “accident,” said the city’s police chief, Alireza Sayyad, quoted by Irna. “An accident on the Iranshahr-Bampour road resulted in the martyrdom of the four police officers,” Sayyad said. Sistan-Balochistan province, mainly the towns of Zahedan, Khash and Saravan, was the scene of violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators protesting the death of Mahsa Amini and the alleged rape of a teenager by a local police chief. Hundreds of people, including children, have been killed in the protests so far.
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