Mahsa Amini's tomb vandalised in Iran
The tomb of Mahsa Amini, whose death after she was arrested for not wearing her veil properly sparked strong protests in Iran, has been vandalised by unknown persons, her family denounced.
"The glass on her grave also bothers them," Ashkan Amini, the young woman's brother, wrote on the social networking site Instagram, a post that has since disappeared.
The disgusting vandalism of Mahsa Amini’s grave only shows the ugliness and the weakness of the Islamic republic in the face of continued protests. The #IranRevolution is happening. #IRGCterrorists pic.twitter.com/kgX4bJw7eg
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) May 21, 2023
The message is accompanied by a photo showing the broken glass covering the grave and a portrait of the 22-year-old at the Aichi cemetery in the city of Saqez in Iranian Kurdistan.
"If they break it a thousand times, we'll fix it again. Let's see who gets tired first," said Ashkan, who added that this is the second time his sister's grave has been vandalised.
The death in police custody of Amini after she was arrested for not wearing the Islamic headscarf properly in September sparked the largest protests against the Islamic Republic and the country's theocratic system in decades.
Today Iranian students demonstrated against the execution of three young protestors by shouting: “Woman, Life, Freedom”.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) May 20, 2023
Yesterday, the Iranian regime hanged those innocent youths for shouting the same three words: “Woman, Life, Freedom”.#MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/tnziTZZAJD
The protests began precisely at the Aichi cemetery on 17 September, the day after her death. There, Iranian women shouted the first "woman, life, freedom", the slogan of the protests, and burned the first veils.
The protests have faded in the wake of a heavy state crackdown that has resulted in some 500 deaths and thousands of arrests, as well as seven executions, one of them in public.
“This year is the year of blood, #Khamenei will be overthrown”
— Kasra Aarabi (کسری اعرابی) (@KasraAarabi) May 20, 2023
Today in #Tehran (Sat 20 May).
In past 24 hours, anti-regime #IranProtests have taken place nationwide, incl in: Isfahan, Karaj, Bandar Abas & Kermanshah.
The second phase of the #IranRevoIution has begun… pic.twitter.com/Mqb8mjEaVg
Small protests again took place in several cities across the country last Friday, spurred by the execution that day of three protesters for crimes allegedly committed during the uprising.
Of all the forms of protest and disobedience, the only one that survived was the rejection of the veil by many women despite attempts by the authorities to re-impose the wearing of the veil.
