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Safa Aeli, Amini’s uncle, was apprehended in Saqqez and taken to an unknown location, reported the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Multiple vehicles of security personnel carried out the arrest of 30-year-old Aeli, according to Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
Amini died on September 16, 2022 while in the custody of Tehran’s morality police after she was arrested for allegedly violating the mandatory dress code by improperly wearing her hijab. Thousands of people protested for weeks after her death, chanting "Jin Jiyan Azadi" (Woman Life Freedom). As authorities cracked down, protest demands for greater freedoms grew to calls for the overthrow of the regime. Women took a lead role in the protests, removing their headscarves in defiance of the hijab law. Thousands of people were arrested and hundreds killed.
Ahead of the anniversary of Amini’s death, Iranian authorities are trying to suppress any renewed protests or commemorations. At least 72 family members of people killed in the protests have been arrested in the last five months and "there has been a notable increase in the pressure exerted by security institutions" on the families, according to Hengaw.
"The families have been threatened not to publish any calls to organise events to mark the anniversary," reported KHRN.
The father and sister of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, who was killed in the protests, were arrested, Hengaw reported on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch last month condemned Iran’s crackdown and "arbitrary arrests" ahead of the protest anniversary.
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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has accused foreign countries of supporting the unrest and "riots."
The Iranian parliament has introduced a stricter hijab law. The "Bill to Support the Family by Promoting the Culture of Chastity and Hijab" proposes fines or imprisonment for women who refuse to wear the hijab. Insulting the hijab would also be banned.
| The Times of Israel adds: |
The [original] protests shook Iran’s Islamic authorities but have now subsided in the face of a crackdown in which rights groups said hundreds were killed and the UN tallied thousands arrested.
Activists say those arrested in recent weeks include Mashallah Karami, the father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, one of seven men to have been hanged so far in cases related to the protests.