Iranian authorities announced on Sunday that they detained more than 260 people on Saturday during protests marking the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, who was detained in Tehran for wearing the veil incorrectly.
A young Iranian Kurdish woman, detained and arrested by the Iranian moral police for violating the country’s rigid women’s dress code, died days later in the hospital, triggering a wave of protests throughout the country that led to the arrest of thousands of people.
The authorities explained that Saturday’s arrests correspond to a 24-hour period and are justified by violations of public security regulations, incitement to protests and possession of weapons, writes the Iranian newspaper ‘Shargh’.
On Saturday, several cities in Iran’s Kurdish-majority northern region supported a general strike called by Kurdish organizations and political parties to protest Amini’s death.
The security forces carried out a large deployment with helicopters and armored vehicles, according to the civil organization Hengaw, which reports more than a dozen identified detainees, including several female activists.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported the death Saturday of a member of the pro-government Basij militia in Fars province during protests.
Source: TSF
