Since the death of Mahsa Amini two weeks ago, protests have continued inside Iran, where 28 journalists have been detained and dozens of protesters killed.
at least 83 protesters dead.) Amnesty’s report also revealed that, according to leaked documents, Iran’s highest military body told commanders to “severely confront troublemakers and anti-revolutionaries” as well as to “confront” all protesters “mercilessly, going as far as causing deaths.”
“The Iranian authorities knowingly decided to harm or kill people who took to the streets to express their anger at decades of repression and injustice,” Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said in a statement. “Amid an epidemic of systemic impunity that has long prevailed in Iran, dozens of men, women and children have been unlawfully killed in the latest round of bloodshed.
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