NCRI Women’s Committee Monthly Report – December 2019
400 women fell for freedom during Iran protests, registered Iran women’s resolve for freedom and equality
More than a month after the Iranian people’s nationwide protests, new dimensions of the clerical regime’s widespread use of violence and its crimes against women and other protesters are coming to light.
On December 15, 2019, the Iranian Resistance announced that the number of those killed by security forces during Iran protests exceeded 1,500. At least 4,000 were wounded and at least 12,000 detained.
Then on December 23, 2019, citing sources within the clerical regime, Reuters confirmed that 1,500 people had been killed in Iran during less than two weeks of unrest that started on November 15. Reuters was told that about 400 women and 17 teenagers were among those killed. The Iranian officials who provided the figures to Reuters, said they were based on information gathered from security forces, morgues, hospitals and coroner’s offices.
Reuters said Khamenei’s order to “do whatever it takes to stop them (the protesters),” had been confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader’s inner circle and a fourth official.
The arrests, particularly the arrests of protesters, are still ongoing more than a month after the uprising in November.
Abdulreza Nazeri, Commander of the State Security Force of Kerman Province, announced on November 28, 2019, that his forces had arrested 25 persons in Sirjan, including five women who had participated in the protests against fuel price hike. (The state-run Asr-e Iran website, November 29, 2019)
The Iranian state media reported that just on November 30 and December 1, 2019, more than 1,000 persons had been arrested in seven provinces. Over 400 in Alborz Province, 31 in Hormozgan, 70 in East Azerbaijan, 50 in Tehran, 240 in Kermanshah, 97 in Fardis, Karaj, 25 in Kurdistan, 32 in Isfahan, and 26 people in Najafabad and Yazdanshahr.
