How the Iranian regime tries to evade accountability for deaths of protesters

NCRI Women's Committee

In this last episode of 2022, we will have an overview of a method the clerical regime most commonly used in the recent uprising to evade accountability for the murder of protesters. Of course, we are going to focus on the cases of women.

During more than 100 days of the Iran uprising, we have frequently run into cases where the deaths of protesters have been officially attributed to accidents, suicides, chronic diseases, etc.

Behnaz Afshari was a college student killed in the protests in Pakdasht, but it was officially announced that she was killed in an accident.

Qazaleh Qassemi, a 26-year-old woman working in an animal store, was killed by security forces with the blows of batons but officially claimed to have died in a car accident.

Fereshteh Ahmadi, the mother of two young children, was shot in the chest by security forces while standing on the balcony of her house. Still, the government said she was shot from inside her house and pressured her father and brother to endorse this scenario.