Swept away by the revolutionary wave sweeping Iran, 17-year-old Amir and his classmates demonstrated at his high school to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, the absence of women’s rights, and the oppression of the regime that has oppressed the country for 40 years. At two in the afternoon and without asking any questions, entered the riot police class. They beat those who tried to flee, gassed them as much as they could, and took Amir and the rest of the rebels to the so-called operation. “psychological re-education centers”As the Iranian Minister of Education baptized them. “They beat him… Three days later he emerged full of bruises, wounds and bullets,” they tell EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA of the Prensa Ibérica group.
His story reaches the hand of this newspaper with a dropper between the fingers of his mother and an intermediary who works as a translator. It is almost impossible for Iranians to call abroad; communication lost and the internet can only be accessed through temporary and possibly protected loopholes. But he manages to send some WhatsApp from time to time. This almost explains 72 hours not knowing if you have a son He would be one of those who disappeared in Iran.
The first alarm signal came to her and her husband from the institute itself, who spoke to the parents to tell them what had happened. Amir was not with his cell phone when he was arrested and no one formally informed the family about where the child is. After tirelessly searching every police station and hospital in the city for two days, his name finally appeared on a list. His entry was recorded at one of the “headquarters” of the Government.
“We arrived at four in the morning and they didn’t deliver it to us until eight in the afternoon. A whole day pleading to agents laughing at us. In the end, we paid bail and took him to the hospital to have his wounds stitched up,” says his mother, whose identity remains anonymous, just like Amir, who is not named. A photo of his face was published.
“Mahsa Amini, 22, who was killed by the moral police for wearing the veil incorrectly, was also taken to one of these centres. They are unaware. these boys and girls who take to the streets to protest today were born and educated by this regime. These centers can’t fix anything, because they’ve spent their whole lives in the system,” explains Fariba Ehsan, president of the Iranian Human Rights Association in Spain.
Between 20 and 30 September, Amnesty International said on Thursday. 23 Iranian teenagersidentified by first and last names, they were killed As a “result of illegitimate use of power” by the authorities. “Many of the men are dead live ammunition shots carried out against them by the security forces; Two people died after being shot bullet fired at close rangeand one and three girls, one fatal beating security forces,” the NGO explains.
The 17-year-old’s injuries report numerous blows, wounds, “infected ears” and a bruise that went down the back from being hit by a rubber bullet. They did not give him anything to eat or drink and only released him after confirming that he was indeed a minor. Otherwise, “They may not have heard from him again,” admits Ehsan. “Amir asked us to flee, to leave Iran,” his family says.
The goal is fear. They are trying to scare the youth and their families who have it. panic in the regimeand in this way they try to ensure that none of them participate in the protests,” Haizam Amirah Fernández, principal investigator for the Mediterranean and the Middle East at the Royal Institute of Elcano, tells EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA.
Amir, therefore, is not the only one, but one more. The Iranian government does not hide it through Education Minister Yousef Nouri. “We have no students in prison.. “The detainees were transferred to psychological and educational correctional centers to prevent them from becoming antisocial people,” Nouri said in an interview with the local reformist newspaper. Shark.
To find them as collected Timesthe government would start put pressure on teachers confessing the identity of the students who participated in the protests.
The labor union in the Iranian education sector, for its part, this Tuesday The principal of a girls’ school in Karaj city was arrested for not wanting to give information about her students.: “Ms. Oghabneshin, headmistress of Khamenei Girls’ School, was arrested in front of her students for refusing to release the school’s security camera footage and deleting its contents. Her status is currently unknown.” .
The union also openly criticizes the government’s intention to make them “the execution arm of the security forces”. Ehsan from Spain, president of the Iranian Human Rights Association, said that his fellow professors in Iran forcing their students to record while they sing It is a tribute to the regime for identifying potential dissidents who reject it, and also for trying to legitimize themselves outside the borders by spreading these videos.
On Wednesday, the European Union reached an agreement among its members to approve new sanctions against Iran amid Mahsa Amini’s death and the Government’s crackdown on its own population. Previously, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada already own sanctions against the regime denial of violence where protests are silenced in the country where it is not fully known how many people died as a result of police intervention. According to Amnesty International’s calculations, which measure only what they identify by first and last name, they would at least be: 144 people. 16% of them are underage.
“This government will not compromise in any way on the issue of women. There was a moment between 1997 and 2005 when everything started moving towards clarity; the veil was lifted, it became colourful, with prints… but it’s all over. We are talking about a government that will never give up of its own free will. pillars of social control‘, explains the expert from the Royal Institute of Elcano.
“It will certainly cost many lives and a lot of pain, but itIran’s men and women depend on it.”Ehsan says. “I think this time will be different from previous revolutions, they lit a spark.”