The police have denied allegations that she was beaten. Police had said Amini died after falling ill and slipping into a coma, but her family have said that witnesses told them she had been beaten by officers. On Friday a coroner's report said that Amini died from multiple organ failure, and ruled out blows to the head and body as a cause of her death. “Those who ignited unrest to sabotage the Islamic Republic deserve harsh prosecution and punishment,” he added.
“The duty of our security forces, including police, is to ensure the safety of the Iranian nation,” he told a group of armed forces cadets in Tehran, according to Reuters. On Monday, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei broke his silence on the issue and accused the United States and Israel of planning the protests when he also appeared to back the government’s crackdown. The government has blamed what it calls “foreign enemies” for stoking the unrest. NBC News has not been able to verify these claims. Human Rights Watch said assault rifles and shotguns have been employed against the demonstrators - even against people fleeing from the police and the military. On Wednesday Human Rights Watch said that Iran's security forces have used excessive force against women protesting peacefully across the country. However, there are at least five cases of Iranians under the age of 18 dying in the protests, according to research compiled by Ghaemi’s rights organization. Last month the human rights group Amnesty International also said it had documented children among the people killed by the government in its crackdown. It’s very difficult for them to go after 13 to 18-year-olds with lethal force, especially when a majority of them are girls.” The Iranian authorities are faced with a dilemma, he said. Ghaemi, who grew up in Iran, added that the protests carried echoes of the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah’s regime, when students ripped out the photos of the monarch and his family from their textbooks and burned them. I think that’s what’s motivating young people to be so vocal.” Their parents have failed to bring about change and they want to have a better life. “This is young people realizing that it’s a battle for their future, and that they have to be a prominent part of it. “It’s an indication that this is a struggle for the future,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran. NBC News has no been able to determine what led to this incident or when it was filmed. The female students in the video can be seen forcing the official to leave the schoolyard, heckling him and throwing plastic bottles in his direction. NBC News has not been able to independently verify this video.īut the recording of the song was removed from Hajipour's Instagram account after reports of his arrest by Iranian police last month.Īnd a video from the city of Karaj, just north of the Iranian capital Tehran, shows a group of schoolgirls that have removed their headscarves and are seen confronting an official from the education ministry. The song went viral on social media and has become the unofficial anthem of the women-led demonstrations. (Twitter)Īnother evocative video, also from Tuesday and shared on Twitter by the New York-based Center for Human Rights, shows a small group of schoolgirls with their headscarves removed, standing in front of a blackboard and singing the protest song "For" written and performed by the Iranian artist, Shervin Hajipour. Students at a school in Shiraz chanting “Basiji, go and get lost!” at a man standing at the podium.
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