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A call from human rights defenders to the international community

“13 killed in Iran Azerbaijan we were able to confirm the identity of the protester”

“If the pressure of the international community and organizations does not increase and the necessary measures are not taken, we are worried that the risk of life of protesters, women and ethnic rights defenders in Iran will increase sharply.”

Prepared by Azerbaijani human rights defenders living abroad and in exile regarding the protests in Iran reportit is also called so.

Report The authors state that Azerbaijanis living in Iran have encountered major human rights violations. They note that those who have encountered these violations of law are mainly those who live in Zanjan, Qazvin, Hamedan, Alborz and Tehran, Ardabil:

“In general, human rights organizations from remote areas of Iran, especially national– he talks very little about the regions where cultural rights are continuously violated.

Iran oppresses non-Persians more”

The document states that this report USA and Azerbaijani human rights defenders living in Canada Iran using their relations with Azerbaijani human rights defenders.

Report mostly in Ardabil, Zanjan, Qazvin provinces of human rights tells about the situation:

“Unfortunately, international human rights reporters do not have adequate access to information from these regions. However, an analysis of recent news reports has shown that the government is cracking down harder on non-Persians than Persians in remote areas. “Based on evidence from witnesses, victims’ families, published information and evidence collected from protesters, we can say that the security forces and SEPAH are deliberately using firearms to quell the protests.”

Zanjan, Ghazvin, Ardabil…

Report the authors note that protest footage from the protests and published reports from Iran Protesters in Zanjan, Qazvin, Ardabil and Tehran mandatory Hijab stands up for women’s rights issues and defends ethnic rights and freedoms:

“Protesters to the leadership of the Islamic Republic, including higher chants many slogans against his leader. Already during the demonstrations, a large number of protesters by the security forces as the government began to crack down on the protesters imprisonment was done, maimed and killed. Most of those killed were killed by live bullets. Due to the unavailability of casualty information in Tehran and other large cities inhabited by Azerbaijanis, it is not possible to easily determine the losses of Azerbaijanis. However, some of this type of information includes funeral videos, family members’ statements, human rights defenders’ research and victims’ reports. social determined on the basis of media profiles”.

“Security bodies put pressure on victims’ relatives”

The report states that in some cases the security agencies put pressure on the relatives of the victims.

They say that the demonstrators should be buried in their cities outside the capital:

“In this case, the origin of the victims can be determined. 13 killed in Iran so far Azerbaijan we have been able to confirm the identity of the protester. The table below provides detailed information about the victims of the protests. On September 21, 2022, one day after the Tabriz demonstration, Zanjan also joined these protests. The gathering of protesters in Zanjan started around 18:00 on Wednesday and gradually spread to other main parts of the city. Objection following the increase in the number of citizens who do the police and security forces attacked citizens with batons and tear gas gas and fired directly at the protesters with a shotgun. Several citizens were injured as a result of metal bullets and club blows. Police and the security forces used many means and different methods to stop the protests.

Iran government’s approach to protests

The report prepared by the human rights defenders states that despite numerous reports from the families of the victims and killed persons, witnesses, human rights defenders inside Iran and International Human Rights Organizations regarding the killing of demonstrators and other people, Iran widely denies the facts of the deaths. No liability is assumed for these facts:

“Analysis shows that in a number of cases deaths could have been prevented. Eighty-three years old higher leader Khamenei described the protesters as “rioters” and “enemies of the people”:

“I say clearly that these riots and this insecurity USA and the occupying, pseudo-Zionist regime [İsrail] and prepared by those who paid them, and some traitorous Iranians abroad helped them,” Khamenei said in his speech on October 3, 2022.

Iran on September 23, 2022 interior minister Ahmad Vahidi during the protests perished made statements about what happened.

He spoke about “anti-revolutionary activist groups from the west and north-west of Iran”.

“The Iranian government is trying to shift responsibility for the deaths”

The report’s authors say the Iranian government is pressuring the victims’ families to declare that the dead demonstrators died in accidents or of heart failure.

For example, in the case of Asra Panahi, the government wants to pressure Asra’s family to say that she died due to illness:

“It is reported that Niman, who was killed in Urmia, died from a dog bite. Thus, the Iranian government is trying to take responsibility for the facts of death with this type of attitude and actions.”

“Hospitals are under the control of the authorities, the wounded are taken to prisons in ambulances”

Conclusions and Recommendations Despite internet restrictions, reports of killings and mass detentions of protesters have increased.

People treat injured and injured protestors at home imprisonment be protected from being: “Because the hospitals are under the control of the authorities and the wounded are taken to prisons in ambulances. Although it was reported that the wounded were sent to “Al-Qadir” hospital and the army, no further information was given. Prison in Tabriz protest full of students who do. Few due to lack of suitable storage facilities a prisonerincluding the students, were taken to places outside the prison.”

At the end of the report, a call was made to the international community and organizations regarding the situation in Iran.



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