NCRI Women’s Committee urges international intervention to stop suppression of children
Iran: Women’s Committee of NCRI condemns attack on Sadr girls’ high school, urges international intervention to stop suppression of children.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) strongly condemns the assault, insult, and crackdown on the students at Sadr girls’ high school in Salsabil, Tehran, on October 24 and calls for the intervention of human rights organizations and children’s rights defenders, especially the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to stop the suppression of teenagers and students by the mullahs’ regime, the only executioner of children in Iran.
In collaboration with the security and intelligence forces, the management of Sadr girls’ high school conducted an insulting and brutal inspection of the students to take away their mobile phones. Students resisted by chanting anti-regime slogans. Due to this assault, two students were critically injured and taken to the hospital. The special unit forces were stationed around the high school to disperse the students and their families who were chanting “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to the dictator.”
On October 24, State-run News Agency, ISNA, quoted the deputy public relations manager of the Ministry of Education as saying, “Today, due to the possession of mobile phones by some students and the insistence of the school principal for an inspection, a clash occurred between several students and their parents and the school principal” and “some of the students experienced low blood pressure, at which point the emergency team treated them.” The police information center announced that following a clash in the vicinity of a girls high school, police officers arrived at the scene.
This is not the first time that the regime’s suppressive forces have attacked schools and beaten and arrested the students. Two weeks ago in Ardabil, in an attack on a girl’s high school, a 16-year-old girl named Asra Panahi was killed by suppressive forces. Dozens of teenagers under 18 have been killed during the nationwide uprising. On October 19, the state-run Asr-e Iran website quoted a parliament deputy as saying that about 200 students were among those arrested.
The NCRI Women’s Committee warns those school principals involved in suppressing students and teenagers in collaboration with the security and intelligence forces to end these repressive measures before it is too late and refrain from tying their fate with the mullahs’ criminal regime.
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) – Women’s Committee
October 25, 2022
