Timeline of the Mahsa Amini protests
"[1] According to human rights groups cited by The Guardian, security forces used pepper spray and arrested several of the protestors gathered outside Kasra hospital, where Amini had been pronounced dead.
Unverified social media posts showed crowds chanting "Saqez is not alone, it's supported by Sanandaj"; youths setting fire to tires; and protesters throwing rocks at riot police across clouds of tear gas.
[38] According to an alleged document later leaked to Amnesty International, the commander of Mazandran province gave orders to "confront mercilessly, going as far as causing deaths, any unrest by rioters and anti-Revolutionaries".
[52] Protests continued in various parts of Tehran (Narmak, Ekbatan, Valiasr, Aryashahr), Karaj (Mehrshahr and Gohardasht), Sanandaj, Qaen, Kashmar, and Babol despite the widespread outage of the internet network in Iran.
Shamdasani added that reports specify that "hundreds have also been arrested, including human rights defenders, lawyers, civil society activists, and at least 18 journalists", and "Thousands have joined anti-government demonstrations throughout the country over the past 11 days.
[95][96] Video shared on social media showed a group of schoolgirls in Karaj forcing an education official out of their school, chanting "shame on you" and throwing what appeared to be empty water bottles at him.
[98] Shakarami's aunt, who posted about her niece on social media, was also arrested on Sunday after security forces raided her house and threatened to kill her if anyone in the family participated in the protests, according to BBC Persian.
[107] The disruption showed an image of Khamenei being targeted by a set of superimposed crosshairs while being surrounded by flames, captioned with various agitative slogans directed at the television audience and the verse "The Blood of Our Youths Is on Your Hands" accompanied by audio recordings of the chant "Woman, Life, Freedom".
[113] The governor of Kurdistan province, Esmail Zarei Kousha, alleged without providing evidence, that unknown groups "plotted to kill young people on the streets" (reported by semi-official Fars news agency).
[115] Iran's regional government official tried to deny the ongoing unrest at the energy sector, and said that the workers at the Assaluye plant "were angered by a dispute over wages and were not protesting over Amini's death".
According to The Guardian, Larijani's statement signifies the "first cracks" amongst Iran's political elite regarding the unrest, with his tone contrasting with that of Khamenei, Iranian parliament and security forces, and the persistent efforts to sabotage the credibility of Amini's family.
"[127] Khamenei on state TV compared the Iranian Republic to a "mighty tree" and said that "no one should dare think they can uproot it", in what Parisa Hafezi of Reuters called his "toughest warning" to protesters to date.
[130] BBC Persian stated that "mistreatment, including sexual and psychological abuse, has been reported by many inmates, especially political prisoners, for years", and that many Iranian social media users reacted by saying that the incident had made them even more determined to protest on the streets.
[130] Patrick Wintour, in The Guardian, suggested the Iranian political elite was divided in how to frame the ongoing unrest: either as a covert foreign intelligence plot, or as "a dangerous warning that the values of the Islamic Revolution have lost sway over a new generation infected by a western controlled internet".
[134] Protestors called for demonstrations to be held in Ardabil in protest against the 12 October 2022 death of Asra Panahi, which resulted from her being attacked by plainclothes security forces at Shahed Girls High School.
[150] As many as ten thousand mourners headed to Amini's gravesite in Saqqez on foot, by car and automobile to commemorate 40 days since her death, which traditionally marks the end of mourning in Iran.
Images shared by Hengaw showed that the government had dispatched heavy presence of security forces overnight in order to block entrance to Saqqez and to close roads leading to Amini's gravesite.
[153] In Germany, TV hosts Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf gave their Instagram accounts, which had about 2 million followers between them, to Azam Jangravi and Sarah Ramani, two Iranian women's rights activists, in order to raise awareness of the protests.
[156] A Tehran court held the first hearings for the people it accuses of being "rioters"; several individuals were charged with "corruption on Earth" and "waging war against God", which carries the death penalty in accordance with post-1979 Iranian law.
[167] Human Rights Watch reported that Iranian authorities have stepped up assault against the widespread unrest and dissent "by filing dubious national security charges against detained activists and staging grossly unfair trials."
They add: "Iran's vicious security apparatus is using every tactic in its book, including lethal force against protesters, arresting and slandering human rights defenders and journalists, and sham trials to crush widespread dissent.
[177] The pro-government Khabar Online quoted the head of the Iranian army's ground forces, Kiumars Heydari, as saying "If these flies (protesters) are not dealt with today as the revolutionary society expects, it is the will of the supreme leader of the revolution.
"[196] The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations stated that more than 300 people including 40 minors have been killed so far by the Iranian government since the start of the protests, throughout the country and in 25 out of 31 of its provinces.
[198][199] In the Kurdish city Javanrud, Bahman Reyhani's Kermanshah Nebi Akram Corps caused an outrage after their soldiers recorded themselves throwing tear gas and firing guns in an attempt to disperse protesters while shouting "Allahu Akbar."
[212] Witnesses interviewed by The Guardian reported that "guidance patrols" seemed to have stepped down their policing of hijab in recent months, possibly due to security forces being tied up with the suppression of protests.
"[251] U.S. Representative Claudia Tenney introduced "H.Con.Res.7 - Condemning the Iranian regime's human rights abuses against the brave women and men of Iran peacefully demonstrating in more than 133 cities," into the 118th Congress's House Foreign Affairs Committee on 01/09/2023.
[4] Around 10 February, eight prominent exiled dissidents from different factions agreed to unify against the Iranian regime: Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, Hamed Esmaeilion, Shirin Ebadi, Abdullah Mohtadi, Golshifteh Farahani, and Ali Karimi.
[262] Protesters took to the streets of several neighborhoods in Tehran as well as in the cities of Karaj, Isfahan, Qazvin, Rasht, Arak, Mashhad, Sanandaj, Qorveh, and Izeh in Khuzestan province, calling for regime change.
[274] A 13 March NPR article reported that a proportion of women in major urban cities continued to go hijab-less in public, and that the government had not generally been enforcing hijab laws on the street since the start of the Mahsa Amini protests.
Human rights organisations called for a United Nations investigation and international action to hold the Islamic Republic government accountable while activists demanded a declaration of public mourning and nationwide protests in his name.
