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With Iran reeling from nearly five months of protests, reports are emerging that the country’s security forces have deliberately shot in the eyes of protesters, especially young women.
In a report released on Friday, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said on Friday that Iranian security forces are shooting protesters in the head and face, leading many to be blinded.
Women protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, arrested by the Morals Police, in Tehran on Saturday, October 1, 2022.
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Initial data gathered by the human rights group indicate that a disproportionate number of protesters targeted and sustained such injuries are young women.
“Exposing the scale of crimes and documenting the evidence are crucial steps towards justice that require the cooperation of all citizens,” said IHR Director Mahmood Amiry Moghaddam. “The leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei and the repressive forces under his command must know that they will be held accountable for all their crimes.”
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The youngest person injured, according to IHR, is a 6-year-old girl named Bonita Kiani Falavarjani. IHR said the girl was shot and blinded in one eye as she stood on her grandfather’s balcony in Isfahan.
The organization shared photos of protesters who suffered eye injuries. He called on the UN Human Rights Council to investigate their cases.
Iran’s supreme leader reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduced prison sentences for “tens of thousands” of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests rocking the country on Sunday, acknowledging for the first time the scale of the repression.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decree comes as authorities have yet to say how many people they arrested during the demonstrations. State media also released a list of warnings about the order that would disqualify those with overseas ties or accused of espionage, charges that have been met with widespread international criticism.
Protesters gather around the burning rubble in the streets of Iran.
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Authorities also did not name any of those who had been pardoned or seen shorter sentences. Instead, state television continued to refer to the demonstrations as a “foreign-backed uprising,” rather than domestic anger over the September death of Masha Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman detained by the country’s morality police. Anger has also spread over the collapse of the Iranian rial against the US dollar, just as Tehran has armed Russia with bomb-carrying drones in its war against Ukraine.
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More than 19,600 people have been arrested during the protests, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has been following the crackdown. At least 527 people were killed as authorities violently cracked down on demonstrations, the group said. Iran has not offered a death toll for months. It has already executed at least four people arrested during protests after internationally criticized trials.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
