In Iran, night demonstrations continue to denounce the killing of the Kurdish girl, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the morality police. Activists reported hit-and-run operations between the demonstrators and the security forces in Sanandaj, the capital of Iranian Kurdistan.
Protesters also blocked a main road leading to Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan, according to activists.
night demonstrations
Meanwhile, Al-Arabiya sources reported that the city of Sanandaj rose up with nightly demonstrations to protest the actions of the security forces.
The protesters tore down pictures of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and former Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
This came after angry youths, during the funeral of the 22-year-old girl, who died as a result of torture at the hands of security, in her hometown of Saqqaz in Iranian Kurdistan, tore up pictures of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, stoned her and then burned her.
Death to Khamenei
Also, a number of protesters who gathered after the funeral in front of the mayor of this Kurdish city, chanted “Death to the dictator” and “Shame on you” in reference to Khamenei.
Meanwhile, the security forces confronted the demonstrators and fired bullets to disperse them, as a result of which a number of them were injured, according to the “Hengau” human rights organization.
Arrest and torture to death
It is reported that the twenty-year-old woman, whose full name is Gina (Mahsa) Amini, had come a few days ago from Saqqaz city to Tehran with her family to visit her relatives. However, the religious police, or what is known as the morality police, arrested her last Tuesday, and took her with others to prison, for wearing a “non-meeting veil”, on the pretext that she had undergone a counseling and orientation course in morals, according to her claim.
While she assured her brother that she would be released after an hour, but that did not happen. Rather, the young woman was transferred to Kisra Hospital in the capital on Wednesday in a complete cerebral coma, almost dead, for her family to confirm later that she had died.
The young woman’s death came amid a growing debate inside and outside Iran about the morality police’s violent behavior and strict laws. Over the past years, several women’s campaigns have been organized in the country against the imposition of the compulsory veil, but the authorities have suppressed it every time, arresting dozens of activists.