Iranian security forces arrested Mahsa Amini’s father on Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the 22-year-old’s death in their custody, sparking widespread protests across the country, according to reports.
Amjad Amini was arrested as he left his home in western Iran, according to Norwegian human rights group Hengaw. He was detained for several hours, and warned not to commemorate the anniversary of his daughter’s death, in an apparent attempt to prevent protesters from gathering at her grave and launching new protests.
Security forces are seen patrolling the streets of Tehran and in western Iran.
The road to the Aichi cemetery where Mahsa is buried was blocked Saturday and military helicopters hovered overhead, preventing Amini’s family from holding a traditional religious ceremony at the young woman’s grave, according to reports.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network said security forces told Amjad Amini that his family had “no right” to leave their home and go to the grave, and should not participate in any commemoration of his death. The family said they wanted to hold a traditional religious ceremony, and had visited the grave on Friday, according to a report.
Amjad Amini, the father of Mahsa Amini, was detained by Iranian security forces to prevent him from commemorating the one-year anniversary of his death in custody.Kurdistan Human Rights Network
One of Amini’s uncles, Safa Aeli, was arrested in Saqez on September 5 and remains in custody, according to reports.
Unable to protest, some Kurdish areas reportedly staged a general strike. Breathe post photos and videos online which appeared to show the streets were largely empty and the shops closed.
Mahsa was beaten to death after she was arrested by Iranian authorities for not wearing the hijab, or head covering, properly, according to Iranian law.
The lynching death of Mahsa Amini, who was beaten to death by Iranian security forces after she was arrested for not wearing a hijab properly, led to massive protests that nearly toppled the fundamentalist regime last year.Getty Images
Amini’s death sparked more than a month of protests last year across the country, some escalating into mass riots as protesters openly clashed with security forces in what some experts say almost led to the downfall of the fundamentalist regime.
In August, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, called the protests “the strongest, most dangerous, and most serious demonstration” in the regime’s history, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.
The protests were notable for the participation of women, many of whom openly defied the strict dress code requiring head coverings, including hundreds who burned head coverings and cut their hair in public.
Women took to the streets of Iran last year, cutting their hair and burning their headscarves to protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.REUTERS
A sign of the impact they have had came when the Iranian regime in December claimed to shut down the “morality police” in response.
On Friday, the US imposed new sanctions on Iran.
The US said it had blocked 29 people and entities in Iran including members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the head of Iran’s Prison Organization and three state-backed media outlets. It also announced visa restrictions on 13 Iranian officials.
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