On the other hand, it was detailed that at least 8 protesters died until this Wednesday in the protests of the last days in Iran, as a result of the death of the young Mahsa Amini after being arrested by the morality police, according to a combined balance.
Iran blocked the mobile internet on Wednesday night almost completely and limited applications such as Whatsapp e Instagram in an attempt to control protests over the death of Mahsa Amen, that have left six dead.
The platform NetBlocks, which oversees user connectivity and internet censorship, stated that major mobile network providers “They have almost completely ceased their services.”
In addition, he reported that access to Whatsapp e Instagram, one of the few Western apps allowed in Iran, whose authorities keep it blocked Facebook and Twitter, although users use them with VPN.
“Iran now suffers the greatest restrictions on the internet since the massacre of November 2019”, NetBlocks indicated.
The platform referred to the protests three years ago caused by the increase in fuel prices and which, according to Amnesty International, left more than 300 dead and thousands of detainees.
Then, the Iranian authorities cut off the internet completely for several days throughout the country.
Death of Mahsa Amin and the “Morality Police”
From the beginning of the protests following the death of Amini on Friday there have been internet outages, but very localized. The above, especially in Iranian Kurdistan, where the young woman was from.
Amini was arrested on Tuesday of last week for the call morale police in Tehran, where she was visiting, and was taken to a police station to attend “an hour of reeducation” for wearing the veil wrong.
He died three days later in a hospital where he arrived in a coma after suffering a heart attack, which the authorities have attributed to health problems, something rejected by the family.
Since then, there have been protests every day, especially at night, and the protesters have published clashes with the security forces on social networks.
In the five days of protests in more than 20 Iranian cities, six people have died, according to the version of the authorities.