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In reply to the discussion: FACT - Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy and killed people [View all]LeftInTX
(34,822 posts)In September 2022 Mahsa/Zhina Amini, a young woman from Irans oppressed Kurdish minority, visited Tehran with her brother. She was stopped and arrested by Irans morality police (gasht-e ershad), who routinely arbitrarily detain women who do not comply with the countrys abusive and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws.
Iranian authorities are still committing crimes against international law with impunit. As they tighten their iron grip on power they promote a climate of fear, eradicating dissent.
They are torturing people in detention and harassing victims families if they dare to call for truth and justice. Women and girls are still facing prosecution, expulsion from school or university, job loss, car confiscation and other penalties for defying discriminatory veiling laws.
The Iranian authorities have intensified their use of the death penalty as a tool of political repression and executed at least seven men in relation the uprising. Dozens more risk execution or being sentenced to death in connection to the uprising.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/what-happened-to-mahsa-zhina-amini/