Merchants and workers in several of its cities Iran participated in yesterday’s Saturday strike in connection with the mass mobilizations that broke out more than a month ago over the death of a young Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the vice police, the NGO said.

Mahsa Amini, 22, died three days after being arrested in Tehran by the vice police who accused her of not fully covering her hair, thus violating the strict dress code for women in the Islamic Republic.

The crackdown on mass demonstrations, the largest in Iran since 2019 against rising fuel prices, has claimed the lives of at least 122 peopleincluding children, according to the organization Human Rights in Iran (IHR)based in Oslo.

Thousands of Iranian women, many of whom bareheaded, are at the forefront of the interrogation movementshouting slogans against the clerical regime, not embarrassed to confront the security forces.

New protests were organized yesterday, but it is difficult to assess their scale due to restrictions imposed by the authorities on Internet access. They were accompanied by strikes.

“Systematic oppression”

news site 1500 tasvir spoke of “strike” organized in several cities such as “Sanaday, Bukan and Sakez” (North). The latter is the city where Mahsa Amini was born.

Norway-based human rights group Hengaw also reported on trade strikes in the same towns and in Mariwan (west).

AT Tabrizcapital of East Azerbaijan province, dozens of workers gathered in front of a chocolate factory, according to a video that AFP said could not be verified immediately.

Students protested at several universities in the country, according to 1500tasvir, referring to the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture in Yazd (central), University of Tehran, University Alame Tabatabayeast of the capital, at Razi University in Kermanshah (northwest) and other institutions of higher education in Hamadan (west), Ahvaz and Yasuj (southwest).

Dozens of students cheered and chanted during a demonstration at Tehran University, a video uploaded to Twitter by 1500tasvir shows.

Beginning of student protests at Tabriz University today, October 22, 2022.
In this video they sing #WomanLifeFreedom in Kurdish.#Mahsa_Amini pic.twitter.com/P5Kq698naU

— 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) October 22, 2022

Another video, filmed at the Faculty of Medicine in Tabriz, shows dozens of students shouting slogans against the authorities.

The trade union organization of teachers called for it to be held today and tomorrow, on Monday. national strike in protest against the repression, which, according to Amnesty Internationaltook at least one life 23 children.

In a statement Coordinating Council of Teachers’ Trade Unions said he was calling for a “sit-in” in response to the “systematic harassment” of security forces in schools. He named the four children who had been killed and spoke of the arrest of a large number of members of the teaching staff.

Activists accuse Iranian authorities of carrying out mass arrest campaign and equally massive travel bans, including for athletes, journalists, lawyers, celebrities.

The authorities, who speak of “riots” rather than demonstrations, downplay their scale and link them to the incitement of the “enemies” of the Islamic Republic, primarily the United States.

Yesterday Saturday Deputy Minister of the Interior Majid Mirahmadi he acknowledged that protests were taking place inside the universities, but assured that the participants were becoming “less and less.”

“The unrest is in its final days,” he added, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

Concentrations abroad

On Friday, an Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabiwho, according to the BBC Persian Service and London-based Iran International, was placed under house arrest after returning from South Korea, thanked her supporters on Instagram.

The 33-year-old athlete, who participated in the Asian Climbing Championships, was met at the airport in Tehran by a crowd of her supporters. Her participation in the games without a headscarf, just wearing a bandanna and jumpsuit in the colors of Iran was seen as a gesture of solidarity with the protests in her homeland.

Human rights organizations abroad expressed concern about the fate of the athlete, who upon her return told the media that the headscarf fell by mistake and apologized.

The solidarity actions of the protesters in Iran continued abroad, from Tokyo to Berlin, and thousands of people gathered at them.

80,000 people rallied in Berlin in solidarity with protesters in Iran. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/AfeXwkY3uN

— Fabian Eberhard (@FabianEberhard) October 22, 2022

The international community has condemned the crackdown, and several countries, including the European Union, have imposed sanctions on Iranian leaders and state institutions accused of it.

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian accused Washington of using the protests to secure concessions in negotiations that began a year ago to bring all parties back to full compliance with the Islamic Republic’s nuclear deal, officially the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed in 2015. year.