International Desk: The country is strictly suppressing the protests caused by the death of Kurdish woman Masha Amini in the custody of the Niti Police in Iran. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said that the situation in Iran is very complicated. More than 300 people have been killed in Iran’s protests so far.
At a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday (November 22), Volker Turk added that the death toll in protests in Iran was rising. Two children died last week. A critical situation has arisen in the country with strict suppression of protests by the security forces.
Masa Amini died in police custody on September 16. She was arrested by Niti Police for allegedly wearing ‘inappropriate clothes’. Since then there have been widespread protests in the country. Iran blames foreign enemies and their proxies for creating chaos in the country. Iran’s World Cup team refused to sing the national anthem in their World Cup opener last Monday (21 November) in support of protests.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said 300 people were killed in the protests in Iran. At least 40 of them are children.
Source: Reuters, BBC
