Iran’s judicial apparatus said Tuesday that more than 1,000 people have been charged so far for their involvement in «unrest» amid protests over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a woman arrested for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly, and vowed to respond «firmly» to the incidents.
The spokesman for the Iranian judicial apparatus, Masud Satayshi, has highlighted the actions of the authorities in dealing with the protests and stressed that the security forces have shown «patience» and «tolerance», amid NGO allegations that more than 300 people have died as a result of the repression of the demonstrations.
«The objective of the judicial apparatus since the beginning of the transformation period has been to find definitive solutions, not partial ones,» he said, before adding that the judicial apparatus «does not maintain a passive posture.» «The enemy did not understand this and started a wave of violence against the population and its security,» he has criticized.
Satayshi stressed that «this patience led to the martyrdom of some security officers and even civilians, but did not cause the officers to lose patience and resort to violence», while indicating that the «agitators» maintain «connections with the enemy».
«The general demand, even by a large number of protesters who did not participate in riots, is for the justice system and security institutions to deal decisively, deterrently and legally with the few people who caused disturbances,» he has said.
In this regard, he stressed that 1,050 people have been charged and stressed that the courts will respond to the claims filed for compensation by those affected by the destruction of property during the protests, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.
Satayshi’s remarks came a day after more than 220 Iranian parliamentarians called on the courts to hand down death sentences against protesters and compared them to members of the Islamic State terrorist group.
The statement, read by MP Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani and signed by 227 of the 290 deputies, calls the protesters ‘mohareb’, equivalent to warrior but also ‘enemy of God’, which carries the death penalty in Iran.
The crackdown on protests over Amini’s death, which include calls for the fall of the Iranian regime, have so far resulted in the deaths of more than 300 people, the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights (IHR) said on Saturday.
In this context, the non-governmental organization Save the Children has called on Tuesday for an investigation to clarify the treatment of children during the repression of the protests, after the United Nations denounced the death of 27 minors at the hands of the security forces.
«We support the call for an international investigation into the events in Iran over the past seven weeks and an immediate end to the violence against peaceful protests,» said the NGO’s director of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action.
«Violence against children is unacceptable and any attack on women’s rights is in turn an attack on girls’ rights,» he reiterated, according to a statement released by Save the Children.
