At least 537 people have been killed by security forces during protests in Iran, according to an NGO

4 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

At least 537 people, including 68 minors, have been killed by Iranian security forces since anti-government protests began in September following the death of Iranian-Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini for not wearing a veil properly, according to data from the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights (IHR).

“Most were killed in the first months of the protests. The Islamic Republic also executed four protesters after show trials and without due process, which were met with a strong reaction from the international community,” he said in a statement. the NGO.

Specifically, IHR has warned that these figures only represent deaths that occurred during street protests. “Protesters executed and those who have died in suspicious circumstances (including suspected suicides) shortly after their release are not included in these statistics,” she said.

By provinces, Sistan and Balochistan have recorded 134 deaths, followed by Tehran (69), Kurdistan (57) people, West Azerbaijan (56), Mazandaran (41), Alborz (31), Gilán (28), Kermanshah (24), Isfahan (19), Khuzestan (17), Fars (15), Khorasan-Razavi (9), East Azerbaijan (5), Qazvin (5), Zanjan (3), Lorestan (3), Markazi (3), Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad (3), Hamedan (2), Ardabil (2), Ilam (2), Bushehr (2), Hormozgan (2), Golestan (2), Semnan (1) and North Khorasan (1).

On the other hand, the NGO has also recorded 309 people executed in Iran in the same period of time, of which 180 were sentenced to death, an “intimidation tool”, for drug-related charges.

“The international community’s lack of reaction to the daily executions may lead to an unprecedented wave of executions of people accused of drug offenses, the low-cost victims of the Islamic Republic’s execution machine,” its director lamented. , Mahmoud Amiri Moghaddam.

The demonstrations broke out in September and represented one of the biggest recent challenges to the current leadership of Iran, which went from harshly repressing the mobilizations to adopting, since March, a less belligerent position, with the pardon of 22,000 detainees.