Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday that his country will continue to hold the Iranian regime responsible for its “hateful” behavior.
Trudeau added in a tweet on the occasion of 40 days have passed since Mahsa Amini’s death “As the people of Iran and others around the world come together, I want to be clear: we are with you. We listen to your calls for action.”
Earlier in the day, a conference of foreign ministers from several countries, including Canada, France and Germany, on Iran issued a statement strongly condemning the violence that led to Mahsa Amini’s death.
Iran has witnessed protests in separate regions for several weeks, including allegations of killing Amini by police after she was arrested on suspicion of wearing an inappropriate headscarf. The Iranian authorities deny that Amini was beaten by the police.
Today, Wednesday, Iranians gathered at a cemetery in the Iranian province of Kurdistan, where the young woman, Mahsa Amini, was buried on the 40th anniversary of her death, and defied the strict security measures imposed to honor her with the end. of the mourning period.
Dozens of women and men who gathered at the Aiji cemetery in Saqez, the city where Mahsa Amini is from in Kurdistan in western Iran, sang “Woman, life, freedom” and “death to the dictator”, according to the videos published. on social media.
According to human rights activists, the security services warned Amini’s family not to hold a ceremony on the anniversary of his death and to visit his grave in the Kurdistan province.
Subsequently, the Norwegian human rights organization Henkau, which monitors rights violations in Kurdistan province, said Iranian security forces fired and tear gas at protesters in Saqqaz, Amini’s hometown, after commemorating his death on Wednesday.
“The security forces fired tear gas and opened fire on citizens in Zindan Square in the city of Saqqaz,” Norwegian Henkau said on Twitter.
A source indicated that dozens of protesters were arrested after the shootings. This was accompanied by an internet outage in the city of Saqqaz.
Earlier, the organization reported that the Iranian regime had imposed a strict security atmosphere on Beljet Saqqaz. The organization pointed out that Iranian security forces have lined up on the streets. He claimed to have received reports of a large-scale strike in 8 cities in western Iran.
This bloody unrest shook the province of Kurdistan (west), Amini’s hometown, as well as Zahedan in the far south-east of Iran, where “Iran Human Rights” claimed 93 people were killed in demonstrations that broke out on the 30th. September due to a police commander’s report of the rape of a teenager.
And Iranian news agency “Tasnim” reported that unidentified gunmen killed two Revolutionary Guards in Zahedan on Tuesday, bringing the total number of security personnel killed in Sistan and Baluchestan to eight.
Despite a “brutal and relentless campaign of repression,” according to Amnesty International, young women and men have again staged protests, as evidenced by the tapes posted online Tuesday.
Young women appear in Tehran subway stations singing “Death to the Dictator” and “Death to the Revolutionary Guards”.
