From the BBC:
“Iran protests: Mahsa Amini's grave attacked by vandals”
(Photograph posted on Instagram by Ashkan Amini showing a
broken pane of glass that was covering the tombstone of Mahsa Amini at a
cemetery in Saqqez, Iran 21 May 2023)
Vandals have attacked the grave of Mahsa Amini, the young
woman whose death in custody last September sparked anti-government protests
across Iran. Photos from her family showed a pane of glass covering her
tombstone and portrait was smashed at Aichi cemetery in the western city of
Saqqez. Her brother posted on Instagram that it was the second attack in recent
months. "Even the glass of your tombstone bothers them," Ashkan Amini
wrote, without directly blaming anyone. He vowed: "No matter how many
times they break it, we will fix it. Let's see who gets tired first." The
family's lawyer, Saleh Nirbakht, said in an audio message that the grave was
vandalised on Sunday by individuals "known for such distasteful actions in
the past". He also said Mahsa's father had told him that authorities
obstructed the installation of a protective canopy over the grave by
threatening a local welder that his business would be shut down if he carried
out the work.
Mahsa died in hospital in Tehran on 16 September, three days
after she was detained by morality police in the capital for allegedly
violating Iran's strict rules requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab,
or headscarf. Witnesses said the 22-year-old Kurd was beaten while in custody,
but authorities denied she was mistreated and instead blamed "sudden heart
failure" for her death. The first protests took place after her funeral in
her hometown of Saqqez, when women ripped off their headscarves in solidarity. They
spread rapidly across the country and evolved into one of the most serious
challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands more have
been detained in a violent crackdown by security forces, which have portrayed
the protests as foreign-instigated "riots". Seven protesters have
also been executed since December following what a UN expert has called
"arbitrary, summary and sham trials marred by torture allegations".
Dozens more have reportedly been sentenced to death or charged with capital
offences. Last week, authorities in the central city of Isfahan hanged three
men found guilty of "enmity against God" over their alleged
involvement in a shooting attack that killed three security personnel during
protests in November.
Sources told Amnesty International that Majid Kazemi, Saleh
Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were forcibly disappeared, then tortured and
forced to make incriminating statements that formed the basis of the cases
against them. Human rights groups are now expressing alarm at an announcement
on Monday by prosecutors in the southern province of Fars that said two Afghan
men, Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeim Hashem Ghotali, would be publicly
executed soon. The Supreme Court recently upheld their convictions for
"corruption on Earth" and "armed rebellion against the
state" in connection with the killing of 13 people in an armed attack at
the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the city of Shiraz on 26 October, which was
claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Norway-based Iran Human Rights said
they were sentenced to death "based on torture-tainted confessions,
without due process and fair trial rights".
^ This act was done by Cowards who are afraid of Equal Rights
and Justice for Iranian Women. ^
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